FRANZ

[_Almost weeping with pain and rage._] An' I will try it, too! You take
care o' yourself an' I'll take care o' myself. If that's the way you're
goin' to act, I c'n do the same! [_With a sudden change of front._] But I
don't want to have nothin' more to do with you! You c'n throw yourself at
his head for all I cares! A crittur like you isn't good enough for me!

[_Exit hastily._

HANNE

So it worked at last. An' that's all right.

_While HANNE continues busy at her washing, WERMELSKIRCH appears in
the passage at the rear. He is a man in the fifties; the former actor
is unmistakable in him. He wears a thread-bare dressing-gown,
embroidered slippers, and smokes a very long pipe._

WERMELSKIRCH

[_Having looked in for a while without being noticed by HANNE._] Did you
hear him cough?

HANNE

Who?

WERMELSKIRCH