Who can live in Russia and not be? So you see trouble and I are not such strangers.
MENDEL
Who would have thought it to look at you? Siberia, gaolers, revolutions!
[Rising]
What terrible things life holds!
VERA
Yes, even in free America.
[Frau Quixano's sobbing grows slightly louder.]
MENDEL
That Settlement work must be full of tragedies.