ibly have eaten enough, my lady.

MIN.
Don't you think so, Franziska? Perhaps I had no appetite when I sat
down.

FRAN.
We had agreed not to mention him during dinner. We should have
resolved likewise, not to think of him.

MIN.
Indeed, I have thought of nothing but him.

FRAN.
So I perceived. I began to speak of a hundred different things, and
you made wrong answers to each.
(Another servant brings coffee.)
Here comes a beverage more suited to fancies--sweet, melancholy
coffee.

MIN.
Fancies! I have none. I am only thinking of the lesson I will give
him. Did you understand my plan, Franziska?

FRAN.
Oh! yes; but it would be better if he spared us the putting it in
execution.

MIN.
You will see that I know him thoroughly. He who refuses me now with
all my wealth, will contend for me against the whole world, as soon as
he hears that I am unfortunate and friendless.

FRAN. (seriously).
That must tickle the most refined self-love.

MIN.
You moralist! First you convict me of vanity--now of self-love. Let me
do as I please, Franziska. You, too, shall do as you please with your
Sergeant.

FRAN.
With my Sergeant?

MIN.
Yes. If you deny it altogether, then it is true. I have not seen him
yet; but from all you have said respecting him, I foretell your
husband for you.

SCENE II.
Riccaut De La Marliniere, Minna, Franziska

RIC. (before he enters).
Est-il permis, Monsieur le Major?

FRAN.
Who is that? Any one for us?
(going to the door).

RIC.
Parbleu! I am wrong. Mais non--I am not wrong. C'est la chambre!!!!!

FRAN.
Without doubt, my lady, this gentleman expects to find Major von
Tellheim here still.

RIC.
Oui, dat is it! Le Major de Tellheim; juste, ma belle enfant, c'est
lui que je cherche. Ou est-il?

FRAN.
He does not lodge here any longer.

RIC.
Comment? Dere is four-and-twenty hour ago he did lodge here, and not
lodge here any more? Where lodge he den?

MIN. (going up to him).
Sir!!!!!

RIC.
Ah! Madame, Mademoiselle, pardon, lady.

MIN.
Sir, your mistake is quite excusable, and your astonishment very
natural. Major von Tellheim has had the kindness to give up his
apartments to me, as a stranger, who was not able to get them
elsewhere.

RIC.
Ah! voila de ses politesses! C'est un tres-galant homme que ce Major!

MIN.
Where has he