These people interest me more than any one else here.
HELEN
No one excepted?
LOTH
No one.
HELEN
Not even my brother-in-law?
LOTH
No! For my interest in these people is different and of an altogether
higher nature. But you must forgive me ... You can't be expected to
follow me there.
HELEN
And why not? Indeed, I understand you very well ... [_She drops a letter
inadvertently which LOTH stoops to pick up._] Don't bother ... it's of no
importance; only an indifferent boarding-school correspondence.
LOTH
So you went to boarding-school?
HELEN
Yes, in Herrnhut. You mustn't think that I'm so wholly ... No, no, I do
understand.
LOTH
You see, these workingmen interest me for their own sake.
HELEN
To be sure. And a miner like that is very interesting, if you look upon
him in that way. Why, there are places where you never see one; but If
you have them daily before your eyes ...
LOTH
Even if you have them daily before your eyes, Miss Krause. Indeed. I
think that is necessary if one is to discover what is truly interesting
about them.
HELEN
Dear me! If it's so hard to discover--I mean what is interesting about
them!
LOTH
Well; it is interesting, for instance that these people, as you say,
always look so menacing and so morose.
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