FLAMM
[Shrugging his shoulders.] Do you think so?—Well, perhaps I am keeping something from you! Suppose it is so, mother…. You know me…. You know my nature in that respect…. The whole world could turn upside down and not get that much [he snaps his fingers] out of me! As for annoyance … everyone has his share of it in this world! Yesterday I had to dismiss one of the brewers; day before yesterday I had to send a distiller to the devil. And, all in all, apart from such incidents, the kind of life one has to live here is really flat and unprofitable enough to make any decent individual as cross as two sticks.
MRS. FLAMM
Why don't you seek company? Drive in to town!