"Mamma, you've broken your promise again."
"No! No! No! Alma, I've been a good mother to you, haven't I?"
"Yes, mamma, yes, but what—"
"Whatever else I've been hasn't been my fault—you've always blamed
Heyman."
"Mamma, I don't understand."
"I've caused you worry, Alma—terrible worry. I know that. But everything is changed now. Mamma's going to turn over such a new leaf that everything is going to be happiness in this family."
"Dearest, if you knew how happy it makes me to hear you say that."
"Alma, look at me."
"Mamma, you—you frighten me."
"You like Louis Latz, don't you, Alma?"