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[_With awkward merriment._] Hanne, I'm comin' to see you! Lord A'mighty!
Has you got such a thing as some warm water?
HANNE
[_Angrily throwing the piece of linen which she has on the washboard back into the tub and going over to the oven._] You come in here a sight too often!
FRANZ
Is that so? What's wrong, eh?
HANNE
[_Pouring hot water into the pail._] Don't stop to ask questions. I got no time.
FRANZ
I'm was.h.i.+n' waggons; I'm not idlin' neither.
HANNE
[_Violently._] You're to leave me alone! That's what you're to do! I've told you that more'n once!
FRANZ
What am I doin' to you?
HANNE
You're not to keep runnin' after me!
FRANZ
You've forgotten, maybe, how it is with us?
HANNE
How 'tis with us? No ways; nothin'! You go you way an' I goes mine, an'
that's how it is!
FRANZ
That's somethin' bran' new!
HANNE
It's mighty old to me!
FRANZ
That's how it seems.--Hanne, what's come between us!
HANNE
Nothin', nothin'! Only just leave me alone!
FRANZ
Has you anythin' to complain of? I been true to you!
HANNE
Oh, for all I care! That's none o' my business! Carry on with anybody you want to! I got nothin' against it!
FRANZ
Since when has you been feelin' that way?
HANNE
Since the beginnin' o' time!
FRANZ
[_Moved and tearful._] Aw, you're just lyin', Hanne!
HANNE
You don't need to start that way at me. 'Twon't do you no good with me! I don't let a feller like you tell me I'm lyin'! An' now I just want you to know how things is. If your skin's that thick that you can't be made to notice nothin' I'll tell you right out to your face: It's all over between us!
FRANZ
D'you really mean that, Hanne?
HANNE
All over--an' I want you to remember that.
FRANZ
I'll remember it all right! [_More and more excited and finally weeping more than speaking._] You don't need to think I'm such a fool; I noticed it long before to-day. But I kept thinkin' you'd come to your senses.
HANNE
That's just what I've done.
FRANZ
It's all the way you look at it. I'm a poor devil--that's certain; an'
Henschel--he's got a chest full o' money. There's one way, come to think of it, in which maybe you has come to your senses.
