MOTHER BAUMERT
A well-off man like him needn't be so hard.
OLD BAUMERT
He's no better off than we is, mother. He's hard put to it too, for all he holds his tongue about it.
MOTHER BAUMERT
He's got his house.
OLD BAUMERT
What are you talkin' about, mother? Not one stone in the wall is the man's own.
JAEGER
[Has seated himself, and taken a short pipe with gay tassels out of one coat-pocket, and a quart bottle of brandy out of another.] Things can't go on like this. I'm dumfoundered when I see the life the people live here. The very dogs in the towns live better.