--May I leave this door open?
[_Points to the door on the left_.]
COLONEL.
That means, I suppose, in plain English, that I
am to go in there?
ADELAIDE.
I beg it of you--just for five minutes.
COLONEL.
Very well--if only I don't have to listen.
ADELAIDE.
I do not require it; but you will listen all the
same if the conversation happens to interest you.
COLONEL (_smiling_).
In that case I shall come out.
[_Exit to the left_; ADELAIDE _rings_.]
_Enter_ SCHMOCK. KORB _also appears at the entrance, but quickly
withdraws_.
SCHMOCK (_with a bow_).
I wish you a good-morning. Are you the lady who sent me her secretary?
ADELAIDE.
Yes. You said you wished to speak to me personally.
SCHMOCK.
Why should the secretary know about it if I want to tell you
something? Here are the notes that Senden wrote and that I found in
the paper-basket of the _Coriolanus_. Look them over, and see if they
will be of use to the Colonel. What can I do with them? There's
nothing to be done with them.
ADELAIDE (_looking through them, reading, in an aside_).
"Here I send you the wretched specimens of style, etc." Incautious and
very low-minded! [_Lays them on the table. Aloud_.] At any rate these
unimportant notes are better off in my paper-basket than in any one
else's. And what, sir, induces you to confide in me?
[Illustration: _Permission Union Deutsch um Vellagssesellsckaft
Stuttgart_. LUNCH BUFFET AT KISSENGEN ADOLPH VON MENZEL.
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