August, go and ask Ansorge if he'll give us a light.
[AUGUST goes out accompanied by FRITZ.
MOTHER BAUMERT
[Overcome by her childish apprehension, whimpers.] Emma! Bertha! where c'n the man be stay-in'?
BERTHA
Maybe he looked in to see Hauffe.
MOTHER BAUMERT
[Crying.] What if he's sittin' drinkin' in the public-house?
EMMA
Don't cry, mother! You know well enough father's not the man to do that.