If you get consumption, it won't be your dress-makin' that's the cause of it. You act as much like a ninny as if you was a man.
LANGHEINRICH
[Putting his arms around MRS. FIELITZ.] Come now, young woman, don't be so cross! Young people wants to have their fling—that's all. An' they'll have it, if it's only with Constable Schulze.
[Exit.
MRS. FIELITZ
Now what's the meanin' o' that?
RAUCHHAUPT
Wait there a minute an' I'll join you.
[He gets up and motions to GUSTAV, who lifts the iron cross again.