Augusta.
What a way to talk!
Mrs Scholz.
They won’t stop!
[She shakes her head despairingly.
Robert (with brutal candour).
Well mother, isn’t it true? Have any strangers ever been able to stand us more than half a day? Haven’t they all cleared out?—The Schulzes—the Lehmanns?
Augusta.
As if we were dependent on strangers—for my part we’re enough for ourselves.