Good-night. You need not wait for me tomorrow when you are going to your uncle. Perhaps I shall have gone out by that time. I have an errand; don't know whether I shall come back tomorrow. And take Nero along--and whatever else is there; take everything along. I no longer need anything--but my tools, my short rifle and--powder and bullets. The other rifles you may sell. Go to Wilkens, you poor thing, he perhaps will get Robert for you yet--after I have gone; after people have once forgotten that your father was a dismissed man. MARY. Good-night. [_Beside herself_.] Good-night, father! FORESTER. Wench, that is a good-night as if forever.--You are right, Mary. Such a stain as I am upon your good reputation must be removed. Go, Mary. Do you hear, Mary? MARY. You shall remain, father. And if you go, I go with you. FORESTER. The way I have to go one goes alone. Go, Mary. SOPHY. Go to bed, Mary. FORESTER. Good-night. And now it's enough. You know I cannot bear lamentations. MARY. You are not going without me, father. You cannot live without me, father. Father, I now feel that in my heart. FORESTER (_protesting_). Yes, I can. What doesn't such a greenhorn feel! MARY. You turn away, father, so that I should not see you crying. Father, pretend you are ferocious, as much as you like-- FORESTER (_wants to disengage himself_). Silly thing there-- MARY. I am going with you. You insist upon your right, and I upon mine, and that is, that I must not leave you. Father, I feel now for the first time that I love no one in the world as much as you. Tomorrow we go together--if you must go. I am going to put on William's clothes. There are still green forests in the world. And surely you shall not hear me complaining. Don't be afraid of that. Why, I can cry during the nights, when you don't see it. But then you will see it by my eyes in the daytime. Why, I must not cry at all! I will only laugh and skip along before you and sing--the beautiful hunting songs.--You see, father, this is the last tear for Robert! And it is already dried, do you see? I am sure that we shall still find happiness in this world--if you must go, father. And if it is not to be, we will thank God and pray, if He only keeps us honest. Then we will think: It is asking too much, if we also wish to be happy. Have I not you? Have not you your good conscience and your Mary? What more do we need? [_Hanging on his neck_.] FORESTER (_who has been warding her off constantly, almost furious, because he can scarcely control his emotion_). Indeed, indeed! Stupid thing! [_More calmly_.] And a "table--spread--thyself," a "gold--mule--stretch-thyself," and the fairy-story is complete. Now go to bed, Mary. [_Roughly_.] Do you hear? SOPHY. Come, Mary. MARY (_at the door of her room she looks around, and runs again to him; embracing him, beside herself_). Good-night, good-night! [_She hurries to her room;_ SOPHY _follows_.] FORESTER (_looking after her_).