_MRS. FIELITZ rises with difficulty and looks out._ LEONTINE I can't bear to look at things like that even. EDE Let him fall! He won't fall nowhere but on his feet; he's just like a cat. DR. BOXER [_Softly and half-humorously threatening RAUCHHAUPT._] Stop exciting my patient all the time. A deuce of a lot of good all my doctoring will do then! MRS. FIELITZ You c'n leave the man be, Doctor. People has put him up to things. Otherwise he's the best feller in the world. DR. BOXER Very well, then! And beyond that, Mrs. Fielitz, how do you feel? MRS. FIELITZ Well enough. 'Tis true,--[_she points to her breast_]--somethin's cracked inside o' here. But then! Everybody's gotta get out o' the world sometime. I've lived quite a while! DR. BOXER You musn't talk so much! You must keep still longer. [_To RAUCHHAUPT._] I've got an invitation for you. Mr. Schmarowski saw you going in here, and so he stopped me and asked me to say that he'd like to have you come over to the dinner! MRS. FIELITZ Rauchhaupt--well, o' course. Why not? RAUCHHAUPT An' I won't go givin' nothin' away yet. MRS. FIELITZ And you, Doctor? DR. BOXER [_Quickly._] Heaven forbid! Not I? MRS. FIELITZ An' why not? Do you bear him a grudge about anythin'? DR. BOXER I? Bear a grudge? I never do that. But, do you see, I'm a lost man as far as all this is concerned. I don't deny that it amuses me to watch all these doings here, but I can't join in them. I'll never learn to do that.--I will probably go away again, too. MRS. FIELITZ An' give up such a good practice? DR. BOXER Sea-faring--that gives a man true health. That is the best practice for one, Mrs. Fielitz, who is in some respects so little practical. MRS. FIELITZ You ain't very practical, that's true. DR. BOXER No, I am not.--Listen, listen, how they're letting themselves go! [_Many voices are heard in enthusiastic shouting._] Great enthusiasm again! In a moment they will raise Schmarowski and carry him on their shoulders. They were about to do it a moment ago. [_A great, confused noise of huzzaing voices floats into the room._] Well, do you see? Isn't that truly uplifting? LEONTINE Mother, look, look who the workin'men is raisin' up! The workin'men is raisin' him up! MRS. FIELITZ Who? [_She rises convulsively and stares out._ LEONTINE Don't you see who it is? RAUCHHAUPT Schmarowski. EDE That's how it is. I couldn't bear to see that there feller. But now ... well ... he's got some sense an' he's fightin' for sensible ideas--against arbitrary an' police power--now, well, I'll drink to his health, too. DR. BOXER Well, of course, Ede, naturally you will! _FIELITZ enters highly excited._ FIELITZ