The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Volume I - Gerhart Hauptmann

Yes, thank God. I have already bought a villa with a very large park in the neighbourhood of Hirschberg. Only I thought that my wife too …

[Pulls at his moustache and stares at the floor. Thoughtfully.] Why don't you buy a villa somewhere else for your wife?

[HOFFMANN shrugs his shoulders.

[As before.] Could you not, perhaps, engage the interest of your sister-in-law for the task of bringing up this child?

If you knew, doctor, how many obstacles … and, after all, she is a young, inexperienced girl, and a mother is a mother.

You have my opinion. Good morning.