THE GOD OF VENGEANCE
Shloyme
You're having a celebration today, aren't you? So we came in to wish you good luck. Old friends. . . eh, what?
Sarah
Look at our "old friends," will you?
Yekel
That was all once upon a time. From today on, — all over! You want to talk business with me? All right. But everything downstairs. (Indicating the basement.) Here I don't know you, nor do you know me, — from now on. You're welcome to a glass of brandy. (Pours out brandy.) But be quick. Somebody might come.
Shloyme, taking his glass, speaks to Hindel, roguishly.
You see? It's a great thing to get married. You become a somebody, on a par with everybody else. And you have Scrolls of the Law written. Not like us chaps, us scamps. (To Yekel.) Yes, and I've really taken an example from you and have today become engaged to this thing here. (Points to Hindel.) She'll make a dandy housewife, eh? You'll see. She'll put on a wig and she'll be the living image of a Rabbi's wife. As true as we're alive. . .
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