the door_).

Not so fast, Professor!

[OLDENDORF _kisses her hand and leaves._]


IDA. }(_together_ Adelaide! [_Falls into her arms._]).
COLONEL. } Adelaide! And at such a moment!


ADELAIDE (_holding_ IDA _fast and stretching out her hand to the_
COLONEL).

Shake hands with your compatriot. Aunt sends love, and Rosenau Manor,
in its brown autumn dress, presents its humble compliments. The
fields lie bare, and in the garden the withered leaves dance with the
wind.--Ah, Mr. von Senden!

COLONEL (_introducing_).

Mr. Blumenberg, the editor.

SENDEN.

We are delighted to welcome our zealous agriculturist to the city.

ADELAIDE.

And we should have been pleased occasionally to meet our neighbor in