The JURY and the JUDGE go out to the right.
ALEXANDERSSON. [To the Sheriff] This here justice is more than I can get any sense out of.
SHERIFF. I think it would be wiser for you to go right home now, or you might have the same experience as the farmer from Mariestad. Did you ever hear of it?
ALEXANDERSSON. No.
SHERIFF. Well, he went to court as spectator, was dragged into the case as witness, became a party to it, and ended up with a flogging at the whipping-post.
ALEXANDERSSON. Oh, hell! But I believe it of 'em! I believe anything of 'em! [Goes out.
The BARON joins the BARONESS in the foreground.
BARONESS. You find it hard to keep away from me.
BARON. Now I have struck you down, and I am bleeding to death myself, for your blood is mine——