HAUSER. Well, I'll remain a patient. You'll need a few anyway to
keep up your business.

BEERMANN. I consider all this a very cheap kind of humor. I used
to joke about these matters myself, but if you will only look upon
this problem from a serious point of view, when your eyes are
opened to the ...

FRAU BEERMANN. ... Your newly acquired ways of talking are quite
unbearable.

BEERMANN. Please, don't make a scene.

FRAU BEERMANN. We have been married for twenty-six years; have
been very fortunate with our own children. Why worry about other
people?

BEERMANN. You are not logical, my love. The mere fact that I
brought up my children properly is all the more reason for my
joining this movement. ...

FRAU BEERMANN. You didn't lose much sleep about their education.

BEERMANN. Evidently I didn't neglect anything.

FRAU LUND. I'm afraid you pride yourselves on a degree of
willpower you never exercised.

BEERMANN. Never exercised? My dear Frau Lund, what do you know