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Oh I shouldn't like you to make an exception for
WEIH.
me.
Pa schanda!
HALM.
(Hands Weihgast hi s overcoat)
NURSE.
get well soon! and
Goodtye then, again;
WEIH.
(moves towards the exit with
lont werry
I give way to depression Halmschlöger.
(FLORIAN,innmerging from behind the curtain.)
Good Evening, Doctor, Good Evening!
FLOR.
What, aren-t you asleep yet?
HALM.
who is that fellow? He gave me such a strange
WEIH.
stare.
HALM. Quar devel of an actor.
Oh yes.
EIH.
Hasn¬t a notion that he will be underground
HALM.
with in a week at latest.
éyes meet
H'm, H'm. (Weihgast)and Florian/exchange a glance)
WEIH.
Consequently I think any discipline is superfluous.
HALM.
Regulations for dying men....... there would be no
sense in that.
Very true...... I have really been very pleased to
WEI
have had this opportunity of getting to know you
better, and so to speak, coming | behind the scenes of
Indeed it has been an interesting visit
your work.
listening
in several ways.
Now
Well, if I may ask you, was it really something
HALM.
of such importance that your friend had to
communicate to you?
Long long ago, we were ultimate
I havent an idea.
WEIH.
with each other, and he wanted to see me once again.
In any case
that was the whole of it.
.... *
I think that my visit has eased his mind greatly.
(going).
My respects, Sir.
NURSE.
Oh yes. (Gives her a rip)
WEIH.
(Exeunt Halmschlöger and Weihgast, behind them the
Nur se /
Well, now, what was it?
(quickly to Rademacher)
FLOR.
The man must havebringing self-control.
under stand how to read forces, but I could see
nothing in his. How did he take it?
(are the
(Nothnlstening to him) Why, how wretched
RADE.
people who have got to go on living to-morrow!
Mr. Rademacher, how is it then? What about the key
FLOR.