I--I--I--I--Oh, Lordy, Lordy! I can't
tell you nothin', how that there thing happened.--I'm on good terms with
people; I don't quarrel with nobody ... I has made mistakes in my life.
That happens when a man ain't got no good companions. But that people
should go an' treat me this way! No, I ain't never deserved that.
MRS. FIELITZ
[_Weeping._] Fielitz, what has I always been tellin' you? Who's right
now, eh? Tell me that: who's right now? You didn't make no enemies on
_our_ account. Them's very different stories--them is. An' I guess Mr.
von Wehrhahn knows somethin' about that!
FIELITZ
Aw, mother, keep still. That there, that was my dooty.
[_EDE, half seriously, half in jest, makes a threatening gesture
behind FIELITZ. WEHRHAHN observes this._
WEHRHAHN
Look here, you there! What's that you did? You stood behind Fielitz and
shook your fist over his head.
EDE
Maybe I'm weak in the chest, but I don't rightly know.
WEHRHAHN
Listen: I'll tell you something. The place for insane people is the
asylum. But if you behave with any more impudence, you'll first be taken
to gaol!--I didn't understand you quite rightly, Mrs. Fielitz. You
insinuated something just now.
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