Blumenblatt

Question 1

CONSTABLE: In you go and no arguments.

Answer 1

WEINBERL: Someone is going to pay for this.

Question 2

MISS BLUMENBLATT: What? Surely this can’t be the young woman?

Answer 2

WEINBERL: Of course she isn’t –

Question 3

CHRISTOPHER: And I can prove it.

Answer 3

WEINBERL: – if she has to. (To CHRISTOPHER) At the same time we don’t want to be taken for someone who leaves society to pay his bills.

Question 4

CONSTABLE: I’ll station myself on the front steps, and wait for your brother-in-law.
(CONSTABLE exits)

Answer 4

WEINBERL: Thank heavens! Now you can see that my friend and I are the innocent victims of a police force the like of which would explode the credibility of a comic opera.

Question 5

MISS BLUMENBLATT: (Folding up the letter) Ah – now I understand.

Answer 5

WEINBERL: Thank goodness –

Question 6

MISS BLUMENBLATT: Lisette … you know where we keep the tin of broken biscuits. Take the coachman into the kitchen and give him one.
LISETTE: Oui, Madame. Walk zis way.

Answer 6

WEINBERL: We must be going – we have a long way to get home.

Question 7

MISS BLUMENBLATT: (Barring their way) Stop! You are not leaving here.

Answer 7

WEINBERL: What!

Question 8

MISS BLUMENBLATT: My dear pretty child – of course I don’t blame you! Your fate is exactly like my own. It happened to me on a horse-tram in the Bahnhofstrasse!

Answer 8

WEINBERL: You mean, the minute you got on it took off like a rocket –?

Question 9

CHRISTOPHER: What? You don’t mean –

Answer 9

WEINBERL: Of course she doesn’t – Madame, would you mind telling us exactly what is in that letter?

Question 10

MISS BLUMENBLATT: Only what you would expect a possessive guardian to write when his virgin niece has been abducted by a notorious Don Juan.

Answer 10

WEINBERL: He’s as wrong about me as he is about her.

Question 11

MISS BLUMENBLATT: Of course he is. Have no fear. I will see you married in the morning.

Answer 11

WEINBERL: (Without thinking) Thank you. No – I think we ought to wait – she’s so young, and I’d like to sleep on it, elsewhere –

Question 12

MISS BLUMENBLATT: (To CHRISTOPHER) This may be your uncle.

CHRISTOPHER: None too soon.

Answer 12

WEINBERL: This’ll clear things up.
(LISETTE appears with MELCHIOR.)
… on the other hand maybe it won’t.

Question 13

MISS BLUMENBLATT: Well, sir?
(WEINBERL and CHRISTOPHER are naturally surprised and dismayed.)
CHRISTOPHER: That’s –

Answer 13

WEINBERL: Zangler’s servant!

Question 14

MISS BLUMENBLATT: Do you know this man, Herr Sonders?

Answer 14

WEINBERL: Sonders?

Question 15

CHRISTOPHER: (Panicking faintly) Oh, I’ve got it!

Answer 15

WEINBERL: (Terrified) I think I gave it to you.

Question 16

MELCHIOR: Your brother-in-law, Herr Zangler. He mistook this man for Sonders, and this lady for his niece –

Answer 16

WEINBERL: Exactly! So he wants you to let us go before he gets here –

Question 17

LISETTE: Herr Weinberl is here.

Answer 17

WEINBERL: Weinberl?

Question 18

MISS BLUMENBLATT: Herr Weinberl? Show him in. A thoroughly reliable man, I’ve heard Zangler speak of him.

Answer 18

WEINBERL: Have you?

Question 19

MISS BLUMENBLATT: I’m delighted to make your acquaintance. Let me introduce you to Herr Sonders.
(WEINBERL and SONDERS scrutinize each other suspiciously.)
Herr Sonders … Herr Weinberl.
Herr Weinberl … Herr Sonders.
But perhaps you two already know each other.

Answer 19

WEINBERL: (Stiffly) I don’t believe I’ve had the honour.

Question 20

BLUMENBLATT: I mean arrest him.
SONDERS: Get rid of him.

Answer 20

WEINBERL: Yes, the man’s a menace.