MRS. WOLFF
I believe you was heard to say somethin' bad about some high person, or
somethin' like that.
FLEISCHER
H-m. You don't know anything definite, I dare say?
MRS. WOLFF
He's mighty thick with Wehrhahn, that's certain. But I tell you what. You
go over to old mother Dreier. That old witch is beginnin' to smell a rat.
First they was as nice as can be to her; now they're eatin' her outta
house and home!
FLEISCHER
Oh, pshaw! The whole thing is nonsense.
MRS. WOLFF
You c'n go to the Dreier woman. That don't do no harm. She c'n tell you a
story ... He wanted to get her into givin' false witness.... That shows
the kind o' man you gotta deal with.
FLEISCHER
Of course, I might go there. It can do no harm. But, in the end, the
whole matter is indifferent to me. It would be the deuce of a world, if a
fellow like that.... You just let him come!--Here, Philip, Philip! Where
are you? We've got to go.
ADELAIDE'S VOICE
Oh, we're lookin' at such pretty pictures.
FLEISCHER
What do you think of that other business, anyhow?
MRS. WOLFF
What business?
FLEISCHER
Haven't you heard anything yet?
MRS. WOLFF [_Restlessly._] Well, what was I sayin'?.
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