MRS. FIELITZ
He oughtn't to be so hot, I think.
LANGHEINRICH
That he ought, just that! An' why not? Do what you can an' go ahead! That's the way! That whole crowd don't deserve no better. Not Wehrhahn an' not Friderici. An' anyhow, it was a good thing, Mrs. Fielitz. It was done just in the nick o' time! Now he's gone an' broken with them fellers, an' everybody knows it. There ain't no goin' back now. Now he belongs to us, Mrs. Fielitz, an' I never would ha' thought it of him!
MRS. FIELITZ
You got reason to be satisfied with him, I'm thinkin'. Look at the noise in your workshop with four journeymen …
LANGHEINRICH
That's true, too, an' I'm not denyin' it. He put money in circulation. I couldn't make friends with Pastor Friderici's collection plate. Couldn't do it. Now everything's arranged.—Now I want you to keep your eyes open at the window when I gets up to the top o' the steeple. I'll wave an' sing out an'—jump down!
LANGHEINRICH and EDE exeunt with the weather vane. A brief silence.