HANNE
Who?
WERMELSKIRCH
Why, a guest—a patient—has arrived upstairs.
HANNE
'Tis time they began to come. We're in the middle of May.
WERMELSKIRCH
[Slowly crosses the threshold and hums throatily.]
A pulmonary subject I,
Tra la la la la, bum bum!
It can't last long until I die,
Tra la la la la, bum bum!
[HANNE laughs over her washing.] Things like that really do one good. They show that the summer is coming.