CAPTAIN. [Picks up the ring and puts it in his rest pocket] She throws away the ring. The witness will please take notice.
ALICE. [Rises in great agitation] And you intend to turn me out in order to put another woman into my home?
CAPTAIN. Yah!
ALICE. Well, then, we'll speak plain language! Cousin Curt, that man is guilty of an attempt to murder his wife.
CURT. An attempt to murder?
ALICE. Yes, he pushed me into the water.
CAPTAIN. Without witnesses!
ALICE. He lies again—Judith saw it!
CAPTAIN. Well, what of it?
ALICE. She can testify to it.