[Slowly approaching the table.] Aw, that business ain't no good 'cept to starve on! When I goes to sell matches, I gets more outa it.

PAULINE

Good-bye, Mrs. John.

MRS. JOHN

[Raging at her brother.] Are you goin' to leave me alone?

BRUNO

[Knuckling under.] Aw, don' go on so. I'm leavin'.

Obediently he withdraws into the adjoining room. MRS. JOHN locks the door behind him with a determined gesture.

PAULINE

That's a feller I wouldn't like to meet in the Tiergarten. Not by night an' not by day neither.