MRS. WOLFF
She'll be out o' school this Easter. Why? Would you like to have her? I wouldn't mind her goin' into service if it's with you.
FLEISCHER
I don't see why not. That wouldn't be half bad.
MRS. WOLFF
She's grown up to be a strong kind o' body. Even if she is a bit young, she c'n work most as well as any one, I tell you. An' I tell you another thing. She's a scamp now an' then; she don't always do right. But she ain't no fool. That girl's got genius.
FLEISCHER
That's quite possible, no doubt.
MRS. WOLFF
You just let her go an' recite a single piece for you—just once—a pome, or somethin'. An' I tell you, Doctor, you ain't goin' to be able to get through shiverin'. You c'n possibly call her in some day when you got visitors from Berlin. All kinds o' writers comes to your house, I believe. An' she ain't backward; she'll sail right in. Oh, she does say pieces that beautiful.—[With a sudden change of manner.] Now I want to give you a bit o' advice; only you musn't be offended.