WOLFF
But what do you want here at home?
LEONTINE
[_Awkwardly affected and aggrieved._] So you don't want me to come no
more at all?
MRS. WOLFF
Aw, you just go ahead and put on that way! I'm so fond o' that! [_She
lets the sack drop from her shoulder._] You don't know nothin', I
s'ppose, about how late it's gettin'? You hurry and go back to your
mistress.
LEONTINE
It matters a whole lot, don't it, if I get back there a little too late?
MRS. WOLFF
You want to be lookin' out, y'understand? You see to it that you go, or
you'll catch it!
LEONTINE
[_Tearfully and defiantly._] I ain't goin' back to them people no more,
mama!
MRS. WOLFF
[_Astonished._] Not goin'?... [_Ironically._] Oh, no! That's somethin'
quite new!
LEONTINE
Well, I don't _have_ to let myself be abused that way!
MRS. WOLFF
[_Busy extracting a piece of venison from the sack._] So the Kruegers
abuse you, do they? Aw, the poor child that you are!--Don't you come
round me with such fool talk! A wench like a dragoon...! Here, lend a
hand with this sack, at the bottom. You can't act more like a fool, eh?
You won't get no good out o' me that way! You can't learn lazyin' around,
here, at all.
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