RAUCHHAUPT
Then you c'n just lean it against the wall.
MRS. FIELITZ
So you got through with it at last. [Calls out through the door.]
Leontine! You come down a minute!
RAUCHHAUPT
Trouble is I had so much to do. I'm buildin' a new hot house, you know.
MRS. FIELITZ
Another one, eh? Ain't that a man for you! You're a reg'lar mole,
Rauchhaupt. The way that man keeps diggin' around in the ground.
RAUCHHAUPT
A man feels best when he's doin' that. That's what we're all made of—earth: an that's what we're all goin' to turn to again. Why shouldn't we be diggin' around in the earth? [He helps himself from the snuff-box which FIELITZ holds out to him.] That's got a earthy smell, too, Fielitz. That smells like good, fresh earth.