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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.