An' why shouldn't I be? But now my
wife is sick. She can't get up an' she don't want me to budge from the
side o' her bed. She screams an' she scolds an' she reproaches me.
Sometimes I reely don't know what to do no more.
MRS. SCHULZE
You better go upstairs a bit first.
EDE
Do give him a chance to get his breath!
LANGHEINRICH
Oh, pshaw! Never you mind! I c'n attend to that right off.
[_After he has taken off his hat and coat and slipped on wooden shoes
he hurries into the house._
EDE
Well, what d'you think o' that?
DR. BOXER
He's a cheerful soul--more so, if possible, than he used to be. It does
one good to find a man that way.
EDE
Only that I axed after Leontine, that riled him more'n a little bit all
right.
MRS. SCHULZE
[_To EDE, watchfully:_] Where was the boss so early this mornin'?
EDE
In Lichtenberg, attendin' a dance.
MRS. SCHULZE
The treatment that woman's gettin' is all wrong, Doctor. I don't mix in
what don't concern me. But the way she's treated, that ain't no kind o'
treatment, I c'n tell you. I told that Majunke man too that the missis
was goin' to the dogs this way.
DR. BOXER
But Dr. Majunke is very capable.
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