Margaret.
Then war is of the devil, and the nation that
cannot live without crime deserves only to be damned.
Doctor.
[Lifting both hands to her.] Ach, Gott! Is it your
father's Fatherland you are speaking of?
Fritz.
[Intervening.] Leave her to me, father. I begin to
understand. [Dr. Schiller goes up; Fritz
turns to Margaret.] Margaret, when you went into the
Minister's house two months ago you hated him
with the bitterest hatred. Has anything happened
since to change your feeling towards the man?
Margaret.
Yes, what has happened since is—
Fritz.
What?
Margaret.
. . . That now I see that wars are not made by
the peoples who suffer most from them, but by their
ruthless masters and rulers, and that the statesman
of the other nation——
Fritz.
[Impatiently.] Never mind the statesman. I said
the man. Has anything happened since to change
your feelings towards the man?
