BERND
My goodness, no! In one way not!
MRS. FLAMM
You can't count on gratitude in this world. My father was chief forester for forty years an' when he died my mother knew want for all that.—You have an excellent son-in-law. You can live in a pleasant house and you'll even have your own land to work on. And that everything goes from better to better—well, you can let your children see to that.
BERND
An' that's what I hope for too. No, I haven't no doubt o' that at all. A man who has worked himself up in the world that way by carryin' tracts …
MRS. FLAMM
Weren't you thinking once of being a missionary?
AUGUST
Unfortunately my health was too bad for that.