HELEN does not stop, nor does she deign to notice or answer KAHL.
KAHL
[Laughing.] I guess ye got a pig killin'?
CURTAIN
THE FIFTH ACT
The same room, as in the first act. Time: toward two o'clock in the morning. The room is in complete darkness. Through the open middle door light penetrates into it from the illuminated hall. The light also falls clearly upon the wooden stairway that leads to the upper floor. The conversation in this act—with very few exceptions—is carried on in a muffled tone.
_EDWARD enters through the middle door, carrying a light. He lights the hanging lamp (it is a gas lamp) over the corner table. While he is thus employed, LOTH also enters by the middle door.
EDWARD
O Lord! Such goin's on! It'd take a monster to be able to close a eye here!