Who? Robert?
WEILER.
I had better be off to my wood-cutters. Otherwise the old man will make a row.
[Exit.]
SOPHY (calling after him).
If you cannot come in I will save your portion. An uncomfortable fellow! And it is not likely that he will acquire polite manners at this late day. That is a relic of his better days. And for that reason your father is indulgent with him because they were old comrades. Godfrey also was one of them. When he had wasted his property in drink he fell in with Stein.
[Surveying the table.]
Here at the head the father of the bridegroom; next to him your father; then the good droll pastor. If it had not been for him, Robert would have gone long ago.
MARY.
Mother, at that time Robert was so wild, so impetuous—