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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.]
BEGRIFFENFELDT
- A man!
PEER
- Oh, then it was he that was chattering.
- [Notes again.]
- "Arrived in the sequel at other results."
BEGRIFFENFELDT [with all sorts of restless antics].
- Excuse me, mein Herr-! Eine Lebensfrage-!
- What brings you to this place precisely to-day?
PEER
- A visit. I'm greeting a friend of my youth.
