No doctor won't be able to help me. SIEBENHAAR You mustn't say that; we'll see about that! Doctor Richter knows his business. My wife couldn't sleep for weeks; her head ached as if it would burst. Last Monday she took a powder, and now she sleeps all night like the dead. HENSCHEL Yes, yes ... well, well ... 'Tis possible! I'd like it well enough if I could sleep.--Is the madam reel sick? SIEBENHAAR Oh, we're all a little under the weather. When once Monday is past, everything will straighten out again. HENSCHEL I s'pose you has to turn over the property on Monday. SIEBENHAAR Yes, I hope it will be possible to arrange it by Monday. In the meantime the work is heaping up so--what with writing and making the inventory--that I scarcely get out of my clothes. But come now, Henschel, and go to bed. One man has one trouble and another has another. Life is no joke and we must all see how we can best fight our way through. And even if many strange thoughts pass through your head--don't take them to heart so! HENSCHEL Thank you many times, Mr. Siebenhaar. Don't take anythin' in ill part, please. An' good luck to you an' your wife! SIEBENHAAR We'll see each other again to-morrow, Henschel. You owe me no thanks for anything. We've done each other many a service in the years that we've lived together here. And those services compensate for each other. We were good friends and, surely, we will remain such. HENSCHEL [_Silently takes a few steps toward the window and looks out._]--Ah, them's queer things here. Time don't stand still in this world. Little Karl, he never came to see us no more ... I can't make no objection. Maybe you was right. The lad couldn't ha' learned nothin' good here. 'Twas different--once! SIEBENHAAR Henschel, I don't know what you mean now! HENSCHEL An' you didn't cross my threshold neither. 'Tis nine months since you did. SIEBENHAAR I had too much to worry me; that's all. HENSCHEL Those were the very times you used to come before. No, no, I know. You were right. An' the people are right too--all of 'em. I can't take no pride in myself no more. SIEBENHAAR Henschel, you must take some rest now. HENSCHEL