I … aw … who'd ha' thought o' such a thing, your honour?
WEHRHAHN
Why don't you lay that clock down?
FIELITZ
I'm a peaceable man, your honour. I—I—I—I—Oh, Lordy, Lordy! I can't tell you nothin', how that there thing happened.—I'm on good terms with people; I don't quarrel with nobody … I has made mistakes in my life. That happens when a man ain't got no good companions. But that people should go an' treat me this way! No, I ain't never deserved that.
MRS. FIELITZ
[Weeping.] Fielitz, what has I always been tellin' you? Who's right now, eh? Tell me that: who's right now? You didn't make no enemies on our account. Them's very different stories—them is. An' I guess Mr. von Wehrhahn knows somethin' about that!
FIELITZ
Aw, mother, keep still. That there, that was my dooty.
[EDE, half seriously, half in jest, makes a threatening gesture behind FIELITZ. WEHRHAHN observes this.