MITTELDORF
If you don't come in the mornin', I'll have a pretty tough time of it!
MRS. WOLFF
I'll come. You needn't go worryin'. There, take a drink. I guess you need
it this weather. [_She gives him a glass of toddy._] I just happened to
have a bit o' hot water. You know, we gotta take a trip yet to-night--for
fat geese over to Treptow. You don't get no time in the day. That can't
be helped in this kind of a life. Poor people is got to work themselves
sick day an' night, an' rich people lies in bed snorin'.
MITTELDORF
I been given notice. Did you know that? The justice has given me notice.
I ain't keen enough after the people.
MRS. WOLFF
They wants you to be like an old watch dog, I suppose.
MITTELDORF
I'd rather not go home at all. When I gets there, it'll be nothin' but
quarrelin'. She just drives me crazy with her reproaches.
MRS. WOLFF
Put your fingers in your ears!
MITTELDORF
An' then a man goes to the tavern a bit, so that the worries don't down
him altogether; an' now he ain't to do that no more neither! He ain't to
do nothin'. An' now I just come from a bit of a time there. A feller
treated to a little keg.
MRS. WOLFF
You ain't goin' to be scared of a woman? If she scolds, scold harder; an'
if she beats you, beat her back.
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