Oh, uncle—how you always seem to hanker after those old things!
MENDEL [Tartly]
Nonsense!
[He takes his umbrella from the stand.]
I don't like to see our people going to pieces, that's all.
DAVID
Then why did you come to America? Why didn't you work for a Jewish land? You're not even a Zionist.
MENDEL
I can't argue now. There's a pack of giggling schoolgirls waiting to waltz.
DAVID