[_They stop hammering; EDE takes up the iron again, takes it into the
smithy and holds it into the flame._
LANGHEINRICH
[_Takes up the water can again and sets it to his lips._] There ain't
much to this!
[_Drinks._
EDE
Things like that makes you thirsty.
_LANGHEINRICH puts the can down._
LANGHEINRICH
You c'n believe me, Doctor: it was fine anyhow.
DR. BOXER
What was it that was go very fine?
LANGHEINRICH
Lord! I don't know! I don't know nothin' much. But when I met Constable
Schulze I had a devil of a good time--that's what!
EDE
An' now a glass o' beer from Grabow over there. That's what I could stand
fine just now.
LANGHEINRICH
Hurry! Get three steins! Dr. Boxer will pay for 'em.
_EDE wipes his hands on his apron and goes._
LANGHEINRICH
An' so you want to settle down here now! That ain't no bad idea neither.
Only this: you got to be up to all kinds o' tricks here. An' if you want
my advice, Doctor, don't go to people for nothin'.
DR. BOXER
Do you think that I'll be unmolested in other respects?
LANGHEINRICH
Aw, them old stories! Them's all outlawed by now. An' then, nowadays they
can't worry people so much no more as they used to do under the old laws.
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