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Julie

Red coat?


Marie

No.


Julie

What then?


Marie

[Triumphantly.] His cap!


Julie

[After a long pause.] He's just a porter, you dunce. Red cap . . . that's a porter—and he doesn't carry a gun or a sword, either.


Marie

[Triumphantly.] But he salutes. You said yourself that was the only way to tell a soldier——


Julie

He doesn't salute at all. He only greets people——


Marie

He salutes me. . . . And if his name is Wolf, that doesn't prove he ain't a soldier—he salutes, and he wears a red cap and he stands on guard all day long outside a big building——


Julie

What does he do there?