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MRS. HENSCHEL
[_Who has been bending down before the oven, draws herself up quickly._]
I'm makin' a fire. Don't you see that?
HENSCHEL
[_Sitting down, heavily by the table._] For my part you c'n light the lamp too.
[_He pulls out the drawer of the table._
MRS. HENSCHEL
What are you lookin' for?
HENSCHEL
Nothin'.
MRS. HENSCHEL
Then you c'n push it back in. [_She steps forward and shuts the drawer._]
I s'ppose you want to wake Berthel up?
[_Pause._]
HENSCHEL
Monday he's goin'. Then we'll be alone.
MRS. HENSCHEL
Who's goin' on Monday?
HENSCHEL
Siebenhaar. The Lord knows how we'll get along with the new owner.
MRS. HENSCHEL
He's a rich man. He won't borrow money of you at least.
HENSCHEL
--Hanne, one of us two'll have to go. One of us two. Yes, yes,'tis true.
You c'n look at me. That can't be changed.
MRS. HENSCHEL
I'm to go away? You want to drive me away?
HENSCHEL
We'll see about that later--_who_ has to go! Maybe 'twill be me, an'
maybe 'twill be you. If I was to go ... I know this for sure--you wouldn't be scared about yourself. You're able to look after the business like a man.--But 's I said: it don't matter about me.
MRS. HENSCHEL
If one of us has to go--I'll go. I'm still strong enough. I'll leave an'
n.o.body needn't see me no more. The horses an' the waggons--they're all yours. You got the business from your father an' you can't go an' leave it. I'll go an' then the trouble'll be over.
HENSCHEL
'Tis easy sayin' that. We got to consider one thing at a time.
MRS. HENSCHEL
There's no use in drawin' it out. What's over and done with is over.
HENSCHEL
[_Rising heavily and going toward the adjoining room._] An' Berthel?
What's to become o' the la.s.s?
MRS. HENSCHEL
She'll have to go to father, over in Quolsdorf.
HENSCHEL
[_At the door of the bedroom._] Let it be. To-morrow is another day.
Everythin' changes, as Siebenhaar says. To-morrow, maybe, everythin' 'll look different.
[_Pause._]
HENSCHEL
[_Invisible in the next room._] Berthel is sweating all over again.
MRS. HENSCHEL
That won't do her no harm to be sweatin' a bit. The drops are runnin'
down my neck too. Oh, what a life--[_She opens a window._]--a body'd rather be dead.
HENSCHEL
What are you talkin' about? I don't understand.
MRS. HENSCHEL
