You just come back and wash for us. Where is your daughter Leontine?
MRS. WOLFF
She went to take some cabbage to the postmaster.
KRUEGER
You just let us have that girl again. She can have thirty crowns wages instead of twenty. We were always quite satisfied with her in other respects. Let's forgive and forget the whole affair.
[He holds out his hand to MRS. WOLFF, who takes it heartily.
MRS. WOLFF
All that hadn't no need to happen. The girl, you see, is still foolish like a child. We old people always did get along together.
KRUEGER
Well, then, the matter is settled. [Gradually regaining his breath.]—Well, then, my mind is at rest about that, anyhow.—But now, do tell me! This thing that's happened to me! What do you say to that?