MATS'S RELATIVES. Two witnesses make valid evidence!
KERSTI'S RELATIVES. We challenge them!
SHERIFF. No challenging without good cause!
BRITA. "If unmarried woman puts away child that comes to its death, the life of the mother shall be forfeit!"
MATS'S RELATIVES. Her life is forfeit!
KERSTI'S RELATIVES. [Drawing closer with menacing gestures] "Empty-headed men and meanly tempered never know that they are far from faultless."[1]—The fault is Mats's!
MATS'S RELATIVES. The fault is not Mats's!
KERSTI'S RELATIVES. The fault is his who did the deed!
MATS'S RELATIVES. [With raised fists] What deed? You had better ask Kersti!
KERSTI'S RELATIVES. Ask her!