MRS. FLAMM
Well, girl, then I'll tell you straight out! If you don't know that an' have forgotten it, then it's simply because you have a bad conscience! Then you've been guilty of something else! An', if you has another secret, it's connected with nobody but with Streckmann. Then, he's the fellow that's bringin' trouble upon you!
ROSE
[Violently.] No, how can you think such a thing o' me! You say that … oh, for the good Lord's sake … how has I deserved it o' you!… If only my little Kurt … my dear little fellow …
[She wrings her hands hysterically in front of the child's picture.
MRS. FLAMM
Rose, let that be, I beg o' you! It may be that you've deserved well o' me in other days. We're not arguin' about that now! But you're so changed, so … I can never understand how you've come to change so!
ROSE
Why didn't my little mother take me to herself! She said she would when she died.