LEONTINE

[Reading on.] … the unforgotten carpenter Mr. Julian Wolff …

[She snivels.

FIELITZ

—Don't you be takin' on now, y'understand? No corpse ain't goin' to come to life for all your howlin'. [He hands the whiskey bottle to RAUCHHAUPT.] Here, Edward, that'll do you good. Them goin's on don't.

[He gets up and brushes off his blue apron with the air of a man who has completed his day's work.

RAUCHHAUPT

[Pointing with the bottle.] Them lines there I made up myself. I'll say 'em over for you; listen now:

"The hearts of all to sin confess" …

'Tain't everybody c'n do that neither!—