Frau Bergmann.

Oh don't deny it any more, Wendla!——I know everything. See, I didn't want to say a word to you.——Wendla, my Wendla——!

Wendla.

But it's not possible, Mother. I'm not married yet!

Frau Bergmann.

Great Almighty God——that's just it, that you are not married! That is the most frightful thing of all!——Wendla, Wendla, Wendla, what have you done!!

Wendla.

God knows, I don't know any more! We lay in the hay——I have loved nobody in the world as I do you, Mother.

Frau Bergmann.

My sweetheart——