WOLFF gets out a little note book and turns over the leaves._
JULIUS
How much is it we put aside since July?
MRS. WOLFF
About thirty crowns has been paid off.
JULIUS
An' that'll leave ... leave ...
MRS. WOLFF
That'll still leave seventy. You don't get along very fast this way.
Fifty, sixty crowns--all in a lump; if you could add that onct! Then the
lot would be paid for all right. Then maybe we could borrow a couple o'
hundred and build up a few pretty rooms. We can't take no summer boarders
like this an' it's the summer boarders what brings the money.
JULIUS
Well, go ahead! What are you ...
MRS. WOLFF
[_Resolutely._] My, but you're a slow crittur, Julius! Would _you've_
gone an' bought that lot? An' if we wanted to go an' sell it now, we
could be gettin' twice over what we paid for it! I got a different kind
of a nature! Lord, if you had one like it!
JULIUS
I'm workin' all right. What's the good o' all that?
MRS. WOLFF
You ain't goin' to get very far with all your work.
JULIUS
Well, I can't steal. I can't go an' get into trouble!
MRS. WOLFF
You're just stoopid, an' that's the way you'll always be. Nobody here
ain't been talkin' o' stealin'.
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