THE SECOND
We are the police.
THE FIRST
[Bends down, touches LILIOM’S shoulder.] Get up and come with us. [LILIOM slowly sits up.]
THE SECOND
Come along.
THE FIRST
[Paternally.] These people suppose that when they die all their difficulties are solved for them.
THE SECOND
[Raising his voice sternly.] That simply by thrusting a knife in your heart and making it stop beating you can leave your wife behind with a child in her womb——