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 FAIGEN If she only would come to me.

SIMAH T’ll come. Why not? Herr Salzberg wants to send me away, anyway.

EZRA You foolish girl, you! Who said such a thing? Talked it into herself. You foolish girl.

FAIGEN She is just pretending. I suppose I’ll have to keep him, too, the pest! (To Asher) Well, now you’re free. If you want to you can run along.

(Simah winks at Asher and they go off together.)

FAIGEN

Ha! I just pretend to scold him. One can’t do otherwise. Really a good boy. Has a sharp head on him, too. In figures—he’s fire and flame! I try to trip him up sometimes, when he’s been particularly dumb there behind my chair. You’d think he was asleep there behind me, and I ask—all of a sudden like: “How much is one thousand times one thousand,” and he answers, perfectly unconcerned. Even if you were to ask him how many stars there were in the heavens, he would tell you off-hand.

(Off in the background Simah is seen climbing a tree, Asher assisting her.)

NACHOMAH She, too, a diamond! Cares for us as if we were her own father and mother.