WALTHER
He forces me to it! Why don't he let me go? Why is I to suffer for other people? You know it all as well as I? How did you used to stand with Henschel in other years when his first wife was alive? D'you think people don't know that? An' now you don't cross his threshold.
SIEBENHAAR
The relations between us are our private affair. And I will not permit remark or interference.
WALTHER
All right. But if first his wife dies, though she's as well as anybody, an' when Gustel goes an' dies eight weeks later, then, I'm thinkin' it's more'n a private affair!
HENSCHEL
What?—Hanne is to come!
MRS. HENSCHEL enters suddenly and quickly, just as she has come from her work and still drying her hands.