What? Nothing. You'll learn it soon enough. Hey? Thirst, thirst—that is my wail, that is my chronic ill-health, my misery; that is the cause of my gout; that will kill me while I am still young. Where is Stein?
MÖLLER.
Now come along to my room and drink a cup of black coffee, so that you may recover your senses. Then I must go to the blast-furnace. I'll take you along as far as the mill in the dell, and then you go the rest of the way to your home. One has to tie your hands, if you are not to drive away your good fortune.
GODFREY (while MÖLLER is leading him off).
Where is he? Hey, there! Where is he? Stein!
SCENE VI
In the FORESTER's house.
SOPHY alone; then WEILER; and, later, the FORESTER.
SOPHY (closing the window).
Robert hasn't come back yet, nor the pastor.