It was the girl Ruth Oppermann, aged seventeen, who had been silent the whole evening and now suddenly burst out: “You all have such excellent theories, you explain everything so cleverly, you know everything. The others know nothing, they don’t care a rap if their theories are stupid and all contradictory. But they know one thing. They know exactly what they want. They act. They do something. I tell you, Uncle Jaques, and you, Uncle Martin, they are going to do the trick and you will get left.”
