MIN.
It is! it is! How did you get this ring?

LAND.
I! In the most honourable way in the world. You do not wish to bring
me into disgrace and trouble, your ladyship! How do I know where the
ring properly belongs? During the war many a thing often changed
masters, both with and without the knowledge of its owner. War was
war. Other rings will have crossed the borders of Saxony. Give it me
again, your ladyship; give it me again!

FRAN.
When you have said from whom you got it.

LAND.
From a man whom I cannot think capable of such things; in other
respects a good man.

MIN.
From the best man under the sun, if you have it from its owner. Bring
him here directly! It is himself, or at any rate he must know him.

LAND.
Who? who, your ladyship?

FRAN.
Are you deaf? Our Major!

LAND.
Major! Right! he is a Major, who had this room before you, and from