WILKENS.
But today he is your master.
FORESTER.
Master or not. The forest shall not be cleared. WILKENS. But you will lose your place.
FORESTER.
To Godfrey? Idle talk! Stein himself can't bear Godfrey, and he knows what I am worth to him. I need not sing my own praise. Show me a forest anywhere in the whole district that can be compared to mine.—Do you hear? Why, there he is back again. Sit down. And if he comes in, act as if nothing had happened.
SCENE IX The same. Enter MÖLLER rapidly; later, ANDREW.
FORESTER (not looking up).
Well, I deal.
[Takes the cards, notices his mistake.]