Scene 1
Zeneli, Adham-Uti

(The characters enter the club room together. The room is furnished with two armchairs and a table in the centre which is heaped with newspapers and manuscripts. To the right is a closet, to the left is a wall telephone.)

Adham-Uti (angrily): What is going on here? I don’t understand a thing. Your employer, the head of this club, promised to meet me here at 8 P.M. and you tell me he is not coming! You even have the audacity to ask me who I am! Did you not inform him that I, Dr Adham-Uti, have arrived and am presently waiting for him?...
Zeneli (with a smirk): Doctor Efendi, I was not able to speak to the bey because he is not here today.
Adham-Uti: What the devil!...
Zeneli: What? Oh, please don’t use that word again because...
Adham-Uti (to himself): I think this man has lost his wits completely!