Martha.
I've always gotten along well with him.
Thea.
He disgraces anybody who is with him. At Rilow's party he offered me some bon-bons. Only think, Wendla, they were soft and warm. Isn't that——? He said he had kept them too long in his trouser's pocket.
Wendla.
Only think, Melchi Gabor told me once that he didn't believe anything——not in God, not in a hereafter——in anything more in this world.
SCENE FOURTH.
A park in front of the grammar school. Melchior, Otto, George, Robert, Hans Rilow and Lämmermeier.
Melchior.