[Taking a deep and difficult breath.] I trust you are right, Mr. Keil.—Did Rose get my letters?
AUGUST
She gave them to me to read. An' I told her, it wouldn't do—that she'd have to go to see you now.
MRS. FLAMM
I must tell you, Keil, I'm surprised that, after all these recent happenin's, she never once found her way here. She knows that she'll find sympathy here.
AUGUST
She's been reel afraid o' people recently. An', Mrs. Flamm, if you'll permit me to say so, you mustn't take it ill. First of all she had her hands full with tendin' to me. I was so in need o' care—an' she did a good work by me! An' then, since that man slandered her so terrible, she scarce dared go out o' the room.
MRS. FLAMM
I don't take offence, Keil. Oh, no! But how is she otherwise? An' what does she do?