The action of the piece plays in the salon of the mansion of a private sanatorium. In the old mansion only more live three persons, who hold themselves for physicists. Chief of the lunatic asylum is Mrs. Mathilde von Zahnd. It is the only in its family is still normal, many their family already in their sanatorium died and/or periods there their old age off. The piece begins with it that the police again once on the way to the sanatorium is. There they find the following situation: On the soil of the salon the corpse of a nurse lies. In the area disorder prevails. Several kriminalbeamte strive already for the corpse. The supervisor asks the straight upper sister to the person of the victim and the author. Over the author it must experience that it concerns Ernst Heinrich Ernesti. Ernesti is one of the three physicists, it holds itself for Einstein. While the supervisor waits for the chief of the house, Herbert George Beutler enters the salon, which spends itself on Newton. The supervisor experiences that also it, his nurse strangled. After a short conversation the chief of the house enters the area. The supervisor points out Mrs. Zahnd that the public prosecutor insists after this second murder now on the fact that strong male male nurses must take over the support of the three physicists. After some hesitating it gives way and assures that it will begin here from now to male male nurses. After the supervisor disappeared, Mrs. Rose with their man and its children appears. She is the former Mrs. von Johann William Moebius, the third physicist. Mrs. Rose married and wants the Missionar rose now to Moebius to say good-bye. It inquires about the condition, and asks it whether king appears to it Salomo still. Moebius can remember only weakly its children, and begins an erring to play. It schuechtert its family and throws it with wild insults from the area. After the family left the area, sister Monika calms the applied Moebius down.
