HENSCHEL
Thank you many times, Mr. Siebenhaar. Don't take anythin' in ill part, please. An' good luck to you an' your wife!
SIEBENHAAR
We'll see each other again to-morrow, Henschel. You owe me no thanks for anything. We've done each other many a service in the years that we've lived together here. And those services compensate for each other. We were good friends and, surely, we will remain such.
HENSCHEL
[Silently takes a few steps toward the window and looks out.]—Ah, them's queer things here. Time don't stand still in this world. Little Karl, he never came to see us no more … I can't make no objection. Maybe you was right. The lad couldn't ha' learned nothin' good here. 'Twas different—once!
SIEBENHAAR
Henschel, I don't know what you mean now!
HENSCHEL
An' you didn't cross my threshold neither. 'Tis nine months since you did.