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Updated: May 18, 2025
Now when I go, I take my husband's "storm" gamp and sit in a corner, hiding behind it. Not that I am in the least ashamed of my legs. Andreas Binzer woke slowly. He turned over on the narrow bed and stretched himself yawned opening his mouth as widely as possible and bringing his teeth together afterwards with a sharp "click."
The old woman spoke quickly, clasping and unclasping her hands. "Andreas, please go to Doctor Erb as soon as you are dressed." "Why," he said, "is she bad?" Frau Binzer nodded, and Andreas, watching her, saw her face suddenly change; a fine network of wrinkles seemed to pull over it from under the skin surface. "Sit down on the bed a moment," he said. "Been up all night?" "Yes.
No, I won't sit down, I must go back to her. Anna has been in pain all night. She wouldn't have you disturbed before because she said you looked so run down yesterday. You told her you had caught a cold and been very worried." Straightway Andreas felt that he was being accused. "Well, she made me tell her, worried it out of me; you know the way she does." Again Frau Binzer nodded.
"Well, Binzer," said the doctor jovially, brushing some crumbs from a pearl-coloured waistcoat, "son and heir becoming importunate?" Up went Binzer's spirits with a bound. Son and heir, by Jove! He was glad to have to deal with a man again. And a sane fellow this, who came across this sort of thing every day of the week.
She showed him into the waiting-room, a dark and musty place, with some ferns under a glass-case by the window. "He says he won't be a minute, please, sir, and there is a paper on the table." "Unhealthy hole," thought Binzer, walking over to the window and drumming his fingers on the glass fern-shade. "At breakfast, is he? That's the mistake I made: turning out early on an empty stomach."
As Frau Binzer opened the door of the front bedroom, a long wail came from the room. That shocked and terrified Andreas. He dashed into the bathroom, turned on both taps as far as they would go, cleaned his teeth and pared his nails while the water was running. "Frightful business, frightful business," he heard himself whispering. "And I can't understand it.
The doctor had one annoying habit imagined he had the right to poke fun at everybody simply because he was a doctor. "The man's riddled with conceit, like all these professionals," Andreas decided. "What sort of night did Frau Binzer have?" asked the doctor. "Ah, here's the gig. Tell me on the way up. Sit as near the middle as you can, will you, Binzer?
Too dark to read; he didn't believe in straining his eyes, and gas at ten o'clock in the morning seemed absurd. So he slipped down in the chair, leaned his elbows on the padded arms and gave himself up, for once, to idle dreaming. "A boy? Yes, it was bound to be a boy this time..." "What's your family, Binzer?" "Oh, I've two girls and a boy!" A very nice little number.
Of course he was the last man to have a favourite child, but a man needed a son. "I'm working up the business for my son! Binzer & Son! It would mean living very tight for the next ten years, cutting expenses as fine as possible; and then " A tremendous gust of wind sprang upon the house, seized it, shook it, dropped, only to grip the more tightly.
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