"What are you waiting for?"
"Eh, Frau, we don't know; the Herr is going to make us a speech."
"Who?" asked Frau Nüssler.
"The Herr," said Kalsow.
"What is he going to make?" asked Frau Nüssler.
"A speech," said Kalsow.
"He must be going crazy," exclaimed Fran Nüssler, dropping the window, and, running in to Jochen, she seized him by the arm, and shook him, as if to bring him to his senses.
"What do you want to do? Make a speech? What are you going to make a speech about? About me, or about Rudolph and Mining?"
"Mother," said Jochen,--but he said it firmly,--"about the geese."
"God have mercy on you," said Frau Nüssler, quite beside herself, "if you say another word to me about the geese!"