- Minna: Shall you not do duty with the Communal Guard?
- Richard Wagner: I shall not. I have resigned.
- Minna: Why?
- Richard Wagner: I, uh, suffer from a double hernia.
- Minna: Should you not go to Dr Pusinelli?
- Richard Wagner: It was Anton Pusinelli who recommended that I had a double hernia.
- Minna: Why?
- Richard Wagner: So that I need not do duty with the Communal Guard.