ALL THE JURORS. Yes.
JUDGE. [To the SHERIFF] Call in the parties and the witnesses.
SCENE VIII
ALL return.
JUDGE. In the case of Alma Jonsson against the farmer Alexandersson, Alexandersson is sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred crowns for slander.
ALEXANDERSSON. But I saw her stealing with my own eyes!—That's what one gets for being kind!
LAWYER. [To ALMA JONSSON] What did I tell you! If you only deny, everything is all right. Alexandersson acted like a fool and denied nothing. If I had been his counsel, and he had denied the charge, I should have challenged your witnesses, and there you would have been!—Now we'll go out and settle up this business.
[Goes out with ALMA JONSSON and the witnesses.