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MRS. FIELITZ
Why d'you go an' run off all of a sudden?
RAUCHHAUPT
I gotta go an' get rid o' some work.
[_Exit with GUSTAV.
MRS. FIELITZ
What's the trouble with you an' Langheinrich again? You act like a
fool--that's what you do!
LEONTINE
There ain't no trouble. I want him to leave me alone.
MRS. FIELITZ
He'll be willin' to do that all right! If you're goin' to turn up your
nose an' wriggle around that way, you won't have to take much trouble to
get rid o' him. He don't need nothin' like that!
LEONTINE
But he's a married man.
MRS. FIELITZ
So he is. Let him be. You got no sense 'cause you was born a fool. You
got a baby and no husband; Adelaide's got a husband an' no baby.
[_LEONTINE goes slowly out._
MRS. FIELITZ
If she'd only go an' take advantage o' her chances. There ain't no
tellin' how soon Langheinrich'll be a widower.
FIELITZ
I don't know's I like to see the way Constable Schulze runs after that
girl.
MRS. FIELITZ
[_Sententiously._] You can't run your head through no stone walls. [_She
sits down, takes out a little notebook and turns its leaves._] You got a
office. All right. Why shouldn't you have? Things is _as_ they is.
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