Now we shall see if you answer as last time!
[Calls out towards the Sphinx.
Hei, Boyg, who are you? A Voice.
[Behind the Sphinx.]
Ach, Sphinx, wer bist du? Peer. What! Echo answers in German! How strange! The Voice. Wer bist du? Peer. It speaks it quite fluently too! That observation is new, and my own.
[Notes in his book.
"Echo in German. Dialect, Berlin."
[Begriffenfeldt comes out from behind the Sphinx.
Begriffenfeld.
A man
Peer.
Oh, then it was <g>he</g> that was chattering.
[Notes again.
"Arrived in the sequel at other results."
Begriffenfeldt.
[With all sorts of restless antics.]
Excuse me, mein Herr[1]! Eine Lebensfrage![1]
What brings you to this place precisely to-day?
Peer.
A visit. I'm greeting a friend of my youth.
- ↑ So in original.
