Mrs Scholz.
No! I should just like to know what I have to reproach myself with. I have a good conscience.
Robert.
Then keep it, in God’s name keep it! (With a movement of self-defence) Only, leave off.
Mrs Scholz.
You mean that money business, I suppose?
Robert.
I mean nothing.
Mrs Scholz.
My parents earned it hardly enough, no woman would have put up with it! Your father just pitched it out of window.