AUGUST
What did you do to the girl?
STRECKMANN
[Backing, in sudden fright, toward the pear tree, cries out:] Help!
AUGUST
What did you do to the girl? Answer me that! I got to know that!
[He has freed himself and faces STRECKMANN.
STRECKMANN
[Lifts his arm and strikes AUGUST full in the face.] There's my answer! That's what I did!