That's right. She was mighty glad, too.
MRS. HASSENREUTER
Well, then we'll have the pleasure—at least, your wife will have the pleasure of seeing you at home oftener than heretofore.
MRS. JOHN
I has a good husband, Mrs. Hassenreuter, who takes care o' me an' has good habits. An' because Paul was workin' out o town you musn't think there was any danger o' his leavin' me. But a man like that, where his brother has a boy o' twelve in the non-commissioned officers' school … it's no kind o' life for him havin' no children o' his own. He gets to thinkin' queer thoughts. There he is in Hamburg, makin' good money, an' he has the chance every day and—well—then he takes a notion, maybe, he'd like to go to America.
JOHN
Oh, that was never more'n a thought.
MRS. JOHN
Well, you see, with us poor people … it's hard-earned bread that we eats … an' yet … [lightly she runs her hand through JOHN'S hair] even if there's one more an' you has more cares on that account—you see how the tears is runnin' down his cheeks—well, he's mighty happy anyhow!