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He'll only come back again—and first thing you know that vagabond will get jealous and there'll be a fight. [Goes out, muttering.] Oh, he's ready enough to fight, he is. Strike a poor little girl like that! Ought to be ashamed of himself! And the police just let him go on doing as he pleases. [''Still scolding, she exits at back.'']

A carpenter wants to marry you?

Yes.

Why don't you?

Because

Liliom doesn't support you, and he beats you—he thinks he can do whatever he likes just because he's Liliom. He's a bad one.

He's not really bad.

That night you sat on the bench together—he was gentle then.