FIELITZ
You c'n do that with a sponge an' you c'n do that with a string. All you gotta do is to steep 'em good an' hard in saltpetre. An' you c'n light that with burning glasses. It c'n be done twenty steps away!—All that's been done before now. There ain't nothin' new in all that to me. I know all about it.
MRS. FIELITZ
An' Grabow's built up again. If he hadn't gone an' taken his courage in both hands, he'd ha' been in the street long ago.
FIELITZ
That's all right, if a man's in trouble like water up to his neck an' is goin' to be drowned. Maybe then …
MRS. FIELITZ
An' there's many as lets the time slip till he is drowned.
[The doorbell rings.