FIRST SOLDIER
Come on!
They're in that room. I saw them! The only skirts
Left in the village. Come, it's Christmas Eve,
Comrades. You've had your fun.
ARRAM
Clear out of this,
We want to sleep.
SECOND SOLDIER
Well, hand the women over.
MICHAEL
There are no women here.
FIRST SOLDIER
You bloody wolf,
I saw them!
NANKO
Come! Come! Come! It's Christmas Eve.
SECOND SOLDIER
Well—if there are no women—where's the harm
In letting us poor soldiers take a squint
Thro' yonder door. My God, we'll do it, too.
Come on, my boys!
[They make a rush towards the room.]
NANKO
Be careful! Or you'll smash
The Christmas tree! You'll smash the gramophone!
[A soldier tries the door on the right. Suddenly it is opened from within and RADA appears on the threshold with the revolver in her hand.]
FIRST SOLDIER
Liars! Liars!