MITTELDORF
If you don't come in the mornin', I'll have a pretty tough time of it!
MRS. WOLFF
I'll come. You needn't go worryin'. There, take a drink. I guess you need it this weather. [She gives him a glass of toddy.] I just happened to have a bit o' hot water. You know, we gotta take a trip yet to-night—for fat geese over to Treptow. You don't get no time in the day. That can't be helped in this kind of a life. Poor people is got to work themselves sick day an' night, an' rich people lies in bed snorin'.
MITTELDORF
I been given notice. Did you know that? The justice has given me notice.
I ain't keen enough after the people.
MRS. WOLFF
They wants you to be like an old watch dog, I suppose.
MITTELDORF
I'd rather not go home at all. When I gets there, it'll be nothin' but quarrelin'. She just drives me crazy with her reproaches.