WOLFF
If you could get a chanct to work for them people some day!
LEONTINE
They treat the girls like they was their own children.
MRS. WOLFF
And his brother in Berlin, he's cashier in a theatre.
WULKOW
[_Has knocked at the door repeatedly and now calls out in a hoarse
voice._] Ain't you goin' to have the kindness to let me in.
MRS. WOLFF
Well, I should say! Why not! Walk right in!
WULKOW
[_Comes in. He is a lighterman on the Spree river, near sixty years old,
bent, with a greyish-yellow beard that frames his head from ear to ear
but leaves his weather-beaten face free._] I wish you a very good
evenin'.
MRS. WOLFF
Look at him comin' along again to take in a woman a little bit.
WULKOW
I've give up tryin' that this long while!
MRS. WOLFF
Maybe, but that's the way it's goin' to be anyhow.
WULKOW
T'other way roun', you mean.
MRS. WOLFF
What'll it be next?--Here it's hangin'! A grand feller, eh?
WULKOW
I tell you, Julius ought to be lookin' out sharp. They's gettin' to be
pretty keen again.
MRS. WOLFF
What are you goin' to give us for it, that's the main thing. What's the
use o' jabberin'?
WULKOW
Well, I'm tellin' you.
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