JOHN
What I'd like to know is how all that concerns me? Ain't there trouble here over some girl most o' the time? Let 'em go on! I don' care! That is to say, Emil, if there ain't more to it than you're tellin' me.
QUAQUARO
That's why I come to you! There is more. The girl said in front o' witnesses more'n onct that that little crittur o' Knobbe's was her own an' that she had expressly given it in board to your wife.
JOHN
[First taken aback, then relieved. Laughing.] She ain't quite right in her upper story. That's all.
ERICH SPITTA enters.
SPITTA
Good morning, Mr. John.