BRITA. That's a promise, but will you keep it?
KERSTI. I will! [Silence.
SOLDIER. Say, Mother.... Please keep quiet a while, children.... Do you know if the sergeant has been asked?
MOTHER. Vesterlund? Of course!
SOLDIER. It's to be at four o'clock in the church, isn't it?
MOTHER. That's right.
SOLDIER. [Putting his papers together] Then I'll go and see the Pastor now.... And I'll go right on to the sexton.... [To himself] Hm-hm! That was that! Hm-hm!
[He goes out pensively without greeting anybody. Silence.
VERGER. Now, my dears, I hope you won't touch anything.
LIT-KAREN. I'll look after Lit-Mats and see that he doesn't.