Eight? Now William may come.
HOST (approaches ANDREW timidly).
You are an honest man. To you I may unburden my mind. They are an abominable set—those that just left. They let fall some words. Godfrey is drunk in the Dell, and Lindenschmied, his mortal enemy, has gone after him. And what didn't he say! He was talking of making his fingers crooked. And that fellow is capable of everything!
ANDREW.
You believe Lindenschmied intends to have Godfrey's life?
HOST.
I have said nothing. If I expose their plot, they will burn my house over my head. And if I do nothing—
[Walks up and down.]
ANDREW (was about to rise, but sits down again).
To save that fellow? Let happen to him what God permits. I will not turn a finger to save him.