Mrs. Anderson monologue (Act 5) — Plays by August Strindberg, Third Series

I worked for the dyer's father forty years ago, I did, and I know the people, both the dyer himself and his brother what went off to America, though they say he's back now. The father, he was a real man, he was, but the boys were always a little so-so. Mrs. Westerlund over here, she used to take care of Rudolph, and the two brothers never could get along, but kept scrapping and fighting all the time.--I've seen a thing or two, I have--yes, there's a whole lot what has happened in that house, so I guess it was about time to get it smoked out.--Ugh, but that was a house! One went this way and another that, but back they had to come, and here they died and here they were born, and here they married and were divorced.--And Arvid, the brother what went off to America--him they thought dead for years, and at least he didn't take what was coming to him after his father, but now they say he's come back, though nobody has seen him--and there's such a lot of talking--Look, there's the dyer back from the police station!