“Eva, have you spoken to Herr Mack?”
“Yes, once.”
“What did he say, and what did you?”
“He is so hard with us now; he makes my husband work day and night down at the quay, and keeps me at all sorts of jobs as well. He has ordered me to do man's work now.”
“Why does he do that?”
Eva looks down.
“Why does he do that, Eva?”
“Because I love you.”
“But how could he know?”
“I told him.”