Berlin?
You ought to spend a couple of months in Berlin.

Perhaps you are thinking of doing so." He turned round quickly to one of his staff who had approached him.
"Well, what is it ?" he said.
Count von Bergmann bowed low.
"The Herr-Director," he said, "humbly craves to know whether it is Your Majesty's pleasure that the opera shall proceed." The Kaiser laughed.
"There, Lord Comber," he said, "you see how I am ordered about.

They wish to cut short my conversation with you.

Yes, Bergmann, we will go on.

You will remain with me, Lord Comber, for this act." Immediately after the lights were lowered again, the curtain rose, and a most distracting hour began for Michael.