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 SIMAH What shall I bring out for the guests?

FAIGEN There’s another kind person for you!

SIMAH Of course, I’m kind!

FAIGEN Yes, I know how kind you are. You can’t even bear old folks.

(Simah winks at Asher.)

NACHOMAH For nothing your scolding, Chaim. Here, I tell her to her very eyes—she’s a big mischief! But I don’t mean her any harm. She’s a good girl, anyway.

ASHER Herr Faigen is angry with me, too, because I’m quiet when I wheel his chair.

FAIGEN This week I was nearly run over.

EZRA (shocked)

So! Nearly run over! Ha, ha, ha! you rascal, you! You forget you’re wheeling a live man? If anything should happen, you could run away, but he, poor man...

FAIGEN That’s just what I say. Don’t dream! Say a word. But, no—he walks along behind me there and I imagine he’s been struck dumb.

ASHER Well then, take Simah. She’s kinder than I am.