QUAQUARO
Tell me, Paul, is your wife at home?
JOHN
[From behind the partition.] Not yet, Emil. My wife went with the boy out to my married sister's in Hangelsberg. But she's goin' to come back this mornin'. [Drying his hands and face, JOHN appears in the door of the partition wall.] Good mornin' to you, Emil.
QUAQUARO
Mornin', Paul.
JOHN
Well, what's the news? I didn't come from the train till about half an hour ago.
QUAQUARO
Yes, I saw you goin' into the house an' mountin' the stairs.