'Tis Fabig from Quolsdorf, I think--the most mischievous little scamp in the county. HENSCHEL Well, I got a little native from Quolsdorf here too. FABIG [_To BERTHA._] We're good old friends, eh? BERTHA [_To FABIG._] Why don't you dive me some nuts? FABIG Aha, she knows who I is! I'll look an' see if I c'n find some! BERTHA Outside in the waggon! FABIG No, they're here in my pocket! [_He gives them to the child._] You see, you don't get out o' the pubs. Long ago your grandfather took you along; now you got to go about with Henschel. HENSCHEL [_To BERTHA._] Tell him to attend to his bit o' trash! Tell him you're bein' looked out for! Tell him that! _GEORGE comes vivaciously out of the billiard room._ GEORGE [_Without noticing HENSCHEL._] Well,--I never saw the likes o' that! That there feller c'n eat glass like anythin'. Put it down on the reckoning, Miss Franziska: a lot o' beer! There's five o' us! FRANZISKA [_Has taken BERTHA on her arm. She goes with the child behind the bar._] Bertha won't permit it; I can't do it now! GEORGE Good heavens, Mr. Henschel, there you are too! HENSCHEL [_Without noticing GEORGE, to HILDEBRANT._] Your health, Hildebrant! [_They clink their glasses and drink._ FABIG [_To GEORGE who, a little taken aback, lights his cigar at one of the tables._] Tell me this, mister George, you're a kind of a wizard, eh? GEORGE Well, I do declare! What makes you think so? FABIG 'Cause a while ago, you was gone like a light that's blown out. GEORGE Well, what's the use o' huntin' for disagreeable things. Siebenhaar an' me--we can't agree, that's all. FABIG [_With the gesture of boxing another's ears._] People do say that somethin' happened.--[_Passing by, to HAUFFE._] Did you win in the lottery? eh? HAUFFE You damned vermin! FABIG Yes, that's just what I am. HENSCHEL Is it true that you're working down at Nentwich's now? HAUFFE What business is it o' yours? HENSCHEL [_Laughing and quite even-tempered._] Now look at that feller. He pricks like a weasel wherever you touches him. WALTHER I s'pose you'll be our host here pretty soon now? HENSCHEL [_After he has glanced at him in astonishment._] That's the first ever I've heard of it! WALTHER Oh, I thought! I don't know exackly who 'twas that told me. HENSCHEL [_Drinking: indifferently._] Whoever told you that must ha' been dreamin'! [_Pause._] HILDEBRANT In this here house everythin' is bein' turned upside down now. An' what I says is this: You'll be all sighin' to have Siebenhaar back some day. HENSCHEL [_To HAUFFE._] You might go over to Landeshut. I got two coach horses standin' there. You might ride them in for me. HAUFFE The hell I will--that's what I'll do for you. HENSCHEL [_Laughing and calmly._] Well, now you c'n sit there till you gets blue in the face. I won't concern myself that much about you! HAUFFE You c'n keep busy sweepin' before your own door. HENSCHEL