SCHIMMELPFENNIG
[_Standing still before LOTH _and looking straight into his eyes._] So
there is really something between you and Helen Krause?
LOTH
Who said--?
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
How in the world did you fall in with this family?
LOTH
How do you know that, Schimmel?
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
It wasn't _so_ hard to guess.
LOTH
Well then, for heaven's sake, don't say a word, because ...
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
So you're quite regularly betrothed?
LOTH
Call it that. At all events, we're agreed.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
But what I want to know is: how did you fall in with this particular
family?
LOTH
Hoffmann's an old college friend of mine. Then, too, he was a
member--though only a corresponding one--of my colonisation society.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
I heard about that business at Zuerich.--So he was associated with you.
That explains the wretched half-and-half creature that he is.
LOTH
That describes him, no doubt.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
He isn't even _that_, really.--But, look here, Loth! Is that your honest
intention? I mean this thing with the Krause girl.
LOTH
Of course it is! Can you doubt it? You don't think me such a scoundrel--?
DR.
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