FRAU BEERMANN. Really?

BEERMANN. Everybody knows that Frau Lund is a radical, but I don't
want you to fall into that habit.

FRAU BEERMANN. I don't acquire new habits as rapidly as you.

HAUSER [to Beermann]. Don't get excited. A politician must give
everyone an opportunity to express his views.

DR. WASNER. I teach young people and I heartily wish they'd
continue to seek their ideals among high minded men and not in the
dark city streets.

BOLLAND. Right! And not in the dark city streets.

FRAU LUND. Nor there, Herr Kommerzienrat, where the veil of shame
is rudely torn from inborn sensitiveness and it is shorn of every
secret charm.

DR. WASNER. Correct! We do want to deprive it of its charm.

FRAU LUND. You succeed in doing that; no tenderness can survive
the brutal frankness of your meetings.

DR. WASNER. It is not a national German trait to sugar-coat sin.

FRAU LUND. Why do you confound all lack of refinement with the
national character?