I had to make a engagement with Arthur. She didn't want to have nothin' to do with me. But Arthur, he came dancin' along in his fine clothes an' he managed to drag her along to a bar. She swallowed the bait right down when he told her as how her intended was waitin' for her there. [_He trills out, capering about convulsively._] "All we does in life's to go Up an' down an' to an' fro From a tap-room to a show!" MRS. JOHN Well, an' then? BRUNO Then she wanted to get away 'cause Arthur said that her intended had gone off! Then I wanted to go along with her a little bit an' Arthur an' Adolph, they came along. Next we dropped in the ladies' entrance at Kalinich's an' what with tastin' a lot o' toddy an' other liquors she got good an' tipsy. An' then she staid all night with a woman what's Arthur's sweetheart. All next day there was always two or three of us boys after her, didn't let her go, an' played all kinds o' tricks, an' things got jollier an' jollier. [_The church bells of the Sunday morning services begin to ring._ BRUNO [_Goes on._] But the money's gone. I needs crowns an' pennies, Jette. MRS. JOHN [_Rummaging for money._] How much has you got to have? BRUNO [_Listening to the bells._] What? MRS. JOHN Money! BRUNO The old bag o' bones in the junk shop downstairs was thinkin' as how I'd better get across the Russian frontier! Listen, Jette, how the bells is ringin'. MRS. JOHN Why do you has to get acrost the frontier? BRUNO Take a wet towel, Jette, an' put a little vinegar on it. I been bothered with this here dam' nosebleed all night. [_He presses his handkerchief to his nose._ MRS. JOHN [_Breathing convulsively, brings a towel._] Who was it scratched your wrist into shreds that way? BRUNO [_Listening to the bells._] Half past three o'clock this mornin' she could ha' heard them bells yet. MRS. JOHN O Jesus, my Saviour! That ain't true! That can't noways be possible! I didn't tell you nothin' like that, Bruno! Bruno, I has to sit down. Oh! [_She sits down._] That's what our father foretold to me on his dyin' bed. BRUNO It ain't so easy jokin' with me. If you go to see Minna, jus' tell her that I got the trick o' that kind o' thing an' that them goin's on with Karl an' with Fritz has to stop. MRS. JOHN But, Bruno, if they was to catch you! BRUNO Well, then I has to swing, an' out at the Charity hospital they got another stiff to dissect. MRS. JOHN [_Giving him money._] Oh, that ain't true. What did you do, Bruno? BRUNO You're a crazy old crittur, Jette.--[_He puts his hand on her not without a tremor of emotion._] You always says as how I ain't good for nothin'. But when things can't go on no more, then you needs me, Jette. MRS. JOHN Well, but how? Did you threaten the girl that she wasn't to let herself be seen no more? That's what you ought to ha' done, Bruno! An' did you? BRUNO