[_Busy extracting a piece of venison from the sack._] So the Kruegers abuse you, do they? Aw, the poor child that you are!--Don't you come round me with such fool talk! A wench like a dragoon...! Here, lend a hand with this sack, at the bottom. You can't act more like a fool, eh? You won't get no good out o' me that way! You can't learn lazyin' around, here, at all. [_They hang up the venison on the door._] Now I tell you for the last time.... LEONTINE I ain't goin' back to them people, I tell you. I'd jump in the river first! MRS. WOLFF See that you don't catch a cold doin' it. LEONTINE I'll jump in the river! MRS. WOLFF Go ahead. Let me know about it and I'll give you a shove so you don't miss it. LEONTINE [_Screaming._] Do I have to stand for that, that I gotta drag in two loads o' wood at night! MRS. WOLFF [_In mock astonishment._] Well, now, that's pretty awful, ain't it? You gotta drag in wood? Such people, I tell you! LEONTINE ... An' I gets twenty crowns for the whole year. I'm to get my hands frost-bitten for that, am I? An' not enough potatoes and herring to go round! MRS. WOLFF You needn't go fussin' about that, you silly girl. Here's the key; go, cut yourself some bread. An' when you've had enough, go your way, y'understand? The plum butter's in the top cupboard. LEONTINE [_Takes a large loaf of bread from a drawer and cuts some slices._] An' Juste gets forty crowns a year from the Schulze's an'.... MRS. WOLFF Don't you try to be goin' too fast.--You ain't goin' to stay with them people always; you ain't hired out to 'em forever.--Leave 'em on the first of April, for all I care.--But up to then, you sticks to your place.--Now that you got your Christmas present in your pocket, you want to run away, do you? That's no way. I have dealin's with them people, an' I ain't goin' to have that kind o' thing held against me. LEONTINE These bits o' rag that I got on here? MRS. WOLFF You're forgettin' the cash you got? LEONTINE Yes! Six shillin's. That was a whole lot! MRS. WOLFF Cash is cash! You needn't kick. LEONTINE But if I can go an' make more? MRS. WOLFF Yes, talkin'! LEONTINE No, sewin'! I can go in to Berlin and sew cloaks. Emily Stechow's been doin' that ever since New Year. MRS. WOLFF Don't come tellin' me about that slattern! I'd like to get my hands on her, that's all. I'd give that crittur a piece o' my mind! You'd like to be promoted into her class, would you? To go sportin' all night with the fellows? Just to be thinkin' o' that makes me feel that I'd like to beat you so you can't hardly stand up.--Now papa's comin' an' you'd better look out! LEONTINE If papa thrashes me, I'll run away. I'll see how I can get along! MRS. WOLFF Shut up now! Go an' feed the goats. They ain't been milked yet to-night neither. An' give the rabbits a handful o' hay.