JAEGER
And we was in our right! [Holding his fist in front of the old man's face.] Say another word, and I'll give you one between the eyes.
BECKER
Come, now, Jaeger, be quiet. Let the old man alone.—What we say to ourselves, father Hilse, is this: Better dead than begin the old life again.
OLD HILSE
Have I not lived that life for sixty years an' more?
BECKER
That doesn't help us—there's got to be a change.
OLD HILSE
On the Judgment Day.