MRS. LEZINSKY. You think she waits till spring to sell that baby-carriage? She sells it now before she moves away--now, this afternoon, I tell you. LEZINSKY. Well, we buy another carriage, then. MRS. LEZINSKY. You don't find such a bargain again anytime. She gives it away. LEZINSKY. My eyes get much better soon--now--by the operation. MRS. LEZINSKY. Operation! Operation! Always operations! And the baby comes. No carriage for our David and Julius to wheel her in--with our Benny at the foot--in the fresh air--and she dies on us in the heat next summer--maybe--and David and Julius and Benny--they lose their little sister. LEZINSKY. Didn't David and Julius and Benny live without a baby-carriage? MRS. LEZINSKY. Yes, a mile to the park, maybe, and I carry them to the fresh air. And a baby-carriage for her costs five dollars. What time shall I have for that with all the extra work and my back broken? In such a baby-carriage the little sister sleeps from morning to night--on the sidewalk by the stoop; she gets fat and healthy from that baby-carriage. LEZINSKY. When I could pay for the operation, maybe--then-- MRS. LEZINSKY [_despairingly_]. Operations again--always operations! LEZINSKY. Go away, Goldie, I must work. MRS. LEZINSKY. I advise you not to have that operation now. He steals your money and don't help your eyes. Get another doctor. But baby-carriages like this ain't so plenty. LEZINSKY. God of Israel, shall I go blind because you would have a baby-carriage for our unborn son? MRS. LEZINSKY. No, but by reading the Torah--and that way you lose good customers, too--and she shall die in the heat because David and Julius cannot push her in that baby-carriage. LEZINSKY. Go away, Gietel, I have work to do. Maybe you could rip out the sleeves from Mr. Rosenbloom's coat? MRS. LEZINSKY. I do anything--anything you like, Solly, for that baby-carriage.... Yes, I rip out the sleeves when I finish sewing on the buttons.... I do anything--anything--so we get this baby carriage. We never get another such carriage. LEZINSKY. God of Israel, will she never hear me when I say: No!