ROSE
An' if he has! I didn't listen to him—
BERND
I'll have to be givin' notice about that feller Streckmann. I'll have to get the help o' the law against him. We was walkin' past there a while ago where they're workin' with that threshin' machine. You hear? They're beginnin' again! [From afar the humming and rumbling of the machine is heard.] An' then he called out somethin' after us. I couldn't just rightly hear what it was.
AUGUST
If a girl talks as much as two words to that man, her good repute is almost ruined.
ROSE
Well, go an' get yourself a better girl.
FLAMM
[Re-enters. He has put on a collar and a hunting coat. His demeanour is firm and dignified.]