Every movement that I make, every
hardship that I undergo, every breath that I draw brings what I owe them
more deeply home to me. And that, you see, is the point; I am absolutely
determined to transmit undiminished to my posterity this heritage which
is mine.
MRS. KRAUSE
Look here, son-in-law, them miners o' ours do drink a deal too much. I
guess that's true.
KAHL
They swills like pigs.
HELEN
And such, things are hereditary?
LOTH
There are families who are ruined by it--families of dipsomaniacs.
KAHL
[_Half to MRS. KRAUSE; half to HELEN._] Your old man--he's goin' it
pretty fast, too.
HELEN
[_White as a sheet, vehemently._] Oh, don't talk nonsense.
MRS. KRAUSE
Eh, but listen to the impident hussy. You might think she was a princess!
You're tryin' to play bein' a grand lady, I s'ppose! That's the way she
goes fer her future husband. [_To LOTH, pointing to KAHL._] That's him,
you know; they're promised; it's all arranged.
HELEN
[_Jumping up._] Stop! or ... _Stop_, mother, or I ...
MRS. KRAUSE
Well, I do declare! Say, Doctor, is that what you call eddication, eh?
God knows, I treat her as if she was my own child, but that's a little
too much.
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