ELIS. Yes, you must stay in the house.
MRS. HEYST. But the furniture he cannot take. How could we live if he took the things away? One cannot live in empty rooms.
ELIS. The foxes have holes, the birds nests there are many homeless ones who sleep under the sky.
MRS. HEYST. That's the way rogues should be made to live—not honest people.
ELIS [By the writing table]. I have been reading it all over again.
MRS. HEYST. Did you find any faults? What was it the lawyer called them? Oh—technical errors?
ELIS. No. I don't think there are any.
MRS. HEYST. But I met our lawyer just now and he said there must be some technical errors a challengeable witness, an unproven opinion—or a contradiction, he said. You should read carefully.
ELIS. Yes, mother dear, but it's somewhat painful reading all this—
MRS. HEYST. But now listen to this. I met our lawyer, as I said, and he told me also that a burglary had been committed here in town yesterday, and in broad daylight.