BOY
[Whispers.] I'm h-hungry.
WOMAN
I think he says—
DREISSIGER
We'll find out. Don't stop. Let us get him into my room. He can lie on the sofa there, We'll hear what the doctor says.
DREISSIGER, NEUMANN, and the woman lead the boy into the office. The weavers begin to behave like school-children when their master has left the classroom. They stretch themselves, whisper, move from one foot to the other, and in the course of a few moments are conversing loudly.
OLD BAUMERT
I believe as how Becker was right.