Why, where them actors lives! It ain't none o' my business! How is I to know anythin' about it? All I c'n say is …
MRS. JOHN
You better hurry on about your business now, Selma! You got a clean conscience! You don' has to care for what people jabber.
SELMA
An' I don' want to betray nothin' neither, Mrs. John.
JOHN
[Grasps SELMA, who is about to run away, and holds her fast.] Naw, you ain't goin'! Here you stays! The truth! "I don' want to betray nothin'," you says. You heard that, too, Mrs. Hassenreuter? An' Mr. Spitta an' the young lady here heard it too. The truth! You ain't goin' to leave this here spot before I don' know the rights o' this matter about Bruno an' his mistress, an' if you people did away with that child!
MRS. JOHN
Paul, I swear before God that I ain't done away with it!