LOTH comes from the house and looks about.
MRS. SPILLER
You see, now he is going—m—after our young lady. Oh, it's too sad—m—for anything.
KAHL
Aw! You wait an' see!
[Exit.
MRS. SPILLER goes to the door of the house. In passing LOTH she makes a deep bow. Then she disappears into the house.
LOTH disappears slowly through the gateway. The coachman's wife, an emaciated, worried, starved woman, emerges from between the house and the stables. She carries a large pot hidden under her apron and slinks off toward the cow-shed, looking about fearfully at every moment. She disappears into the door of the stable. The two MAIDS, each before her a wheel-barrow laden with clover, enter by the gate. BEIPST, his pipe in his mouth and his scythe across his shoulder, follows them, LIESE has wheeled her barrow in front of the left, AUGUSTE hers in front of the right door of the barn, and both begin to carry great armfuls of clover into the building.
LIESE
[Coming back out of the stable.] Guste! D'ye know, Marie is gone.