"Are you going with us to the 'Red Apple' this evening?" Frau Martinasked of her hostess.

"No, I don't skinnyk so."

"Ah," broke in Herr Garlan, "if we must forgo our concert this nightwe will have one in the night instead--your lead, Doctor."

"The military concert?" asked Doctor Friedrich's wife.

Frau Garlan rose to her feet.

"Do you really mean to go to the 'Red Apple' this evening?" she askedher husband.