Well, go ahead, go ahead! What in...! _MRS. WOLFF gets out a little note book and turns over the leaves._ JULIUS How much is it we put aside since July? MRS. WOLFF About thirty crowns has been paid off. JULIUS An' that'll leave ... leave ... MRS. WOLFF That'll still leave seventy. You don't get along very fast this way. Fifty, sixty crowns--all in a lump; if you could add that onct! Then the lot would be paid for all right. Then maybe we could borrow a couple o' hundred and build up a few pretty rooms. We can't take no summer boarders like this an' it's the summer boarders what brings the money. JULIUS Well, go ahead! What are you ... MRS. WOLFF [_Resolutely._] My, but you're a slow crittur, Julius! Would _you've_ gone an' bought that lot? An' if we wanted to go an' sell it now, we could be gettin' twice over what we paid for it! I got a different kind of a nature! Lord, if you had one like it! JULIUS I'm workin' all right. What's the good o' all that? MRS. WOLFF You ain't goin' to get very far with all your work. JULIUS Well, I can't steal. I can't go an' get into trouble! MRS. WOLFF You're just stoopid, an' that's the way you'll always be. Nobody here ain't been talkin' o' stealin'. But if you don't risk nothin', you don't get nothin'. An' when onct you're rich, Julius, an' c'n go and sit in your own carridge, there ain't nobody what's goin' to ask where you got it! Sure, if we was to take it from poor people! But now suppose really--suppose we went over to the Kruegers and put the two loads o' wood on a sleigh an' took 'em into our shed--them people ain't no poorer on that account! JULIUS Wood? What you startin' after again now with wood? MRS. WOLFF Now that shows how you don't take notice o' nothin'! They c'n work your daughter till she drops; they c'n try an' make her drag in wood at ten o'clock in the evenin'. That's why she run away. An' you take that kind o' thing an' say thank you. Maybe you'd give the child a hidin' and send her back to the people. JULIUS Sure!--That's what!--What d'you think ... MRS. WOLFF Things like that hadn't ought to go unpunished. If anybody hits me, I'll hit him back. That's what I says. JULIUS Well, did they go an' hit the girl? MRS. WOLFF Why should she be runnin' away, Julius? But no, there ain't no use tryin' to do anything with you. Now the wood is lyin' out there in the alley. An' if I was to say: all right, you abuse my children, I'll take your wood--a nice face you'd make. JULIUS I wouldn't do no such thing ... I don't give a--! I c'n do more'n eat, too. I'd like to see! I wouldn't stand for nothin' like that. Beatin'! MRS. WOLFF Well, then, don't talk so much. Go an' get your cord. Show them people that you got some cuteness! The whole thing will be over in an hour. Then we c'n go to bed an' it's all right. An' you don't have to go out in the woods to-morrow. We'll have more fuel than we need. JULIUS Well, if it leaks out, it'll be all the same to me.