Mother and Son
son has dared to return? Ha, ha, ha! It would seem that it was destined I should return once again.
Malkele
How did you dare to show yourself in such garb in a house filled with the Holy Torah and with Judaism!
Moshele (looking down at his modern garb)
Neither my clothes nor I fit the place. True. But it is not my fault. You would not have seen me here today if I had not been sent for.
Malkele
You were sent for? Who dared write without my knowledge?
Moshele
They wrote me your were dangerously ill. If it were not for that I should not be here. You must surely know there is no great joy for me here in this house, which is dominated by his— (pointing to the portrait) tyranny.
Malkele
And you still have the effrontery…
Moshele
This is no place for a man who would live. Here—his dead will reigns.
Malkele
You dare! You dare to mock him after you have killed him!
Moshele (growing pale)
What! (He moves involuntarily toward his mother—stunned.) What!!
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