There are other washerwomen.
MRS. WOLFF
An' the vegetables an' the fruit out o' your garden--you c'n just go an'
get somebody else to sell 'em for you.
KRUEGER
I can get rid of all that. There's no fear. All you needed to have done
was to have taken a stick to that girl of yours and sent her back.
MRS. WOLFF
I won't have no daughter of mine abused.
KRUEGER
Who has been abusing your daughter, I'd like to know!
MRS. WOLFF
[_To WEHRHAHN._] The girl came back to me no better'n a skeleton.
KRUEGER
Then let her not spend all her nights dancing.
MRS. WOLFF
She sleeps like the dead all day.
WEHRHAHN
[_Past MRS. WOLFF to KRUEGER._] By the way, where did you buy the wood in
question?
MRS. WOLFF
Is this thing goin' to last much longer?
WEHRHAHN
Why, Mrs. Wolff?
MRS. WOLFF
Why, on account o' the washin'. If I wastes my time standin' round here,
I can't get done.
WEHRHAHN
We can't take that into consideration here, Mrs. Wolff.
MRS. WOLFF
An' your wife? What's she goin' to say? You c'n go an' settle it with
her, your honour.
WEHRHAHN
It will only last another minute, anyhow.--You tell us frankly, Mrs.
Wolff--you know the whole village.
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