KERSTI. Who can that be?
MIDWIFE. The Sheriff!
KERSTI. [Startled] The Sheriff?
MIDWIFE. Yes, the Sheriff. He is a very remarkable man, and I have heard of no one who knows the law as he does, from cover to cover.... You and I could never get all that into our heads, but—there is one chapter I have to know by heart, being a midwife.... And a most remarkable chapter it is, with a most remarkable number of paragraphs.... What's the matter?
KERSTI. [Agitated] Tell me what you know.
MIDWIFE. Nothing at all I am nothing but a poor old woman who has come here to get lodging for the night....
KERSTI. Lodging here?
MIDWIFE. Right here.
KERSTI. Begone!
MIDWIFE. I can't be walking the woods in the dark of the night.