Because I gave it to her myself.
HASSENREUTER
But Mrs. John has her own child and it just occurs to me that she has taken it along with her on a visit to her sister-in-law.
PAULINE
She ain't got no child. No, Mrs. John ain't got none! She cheats an' she lies. She ain't got none. She took my little Alois an' she ruined him.
HASSENREUTER
By heaven, ladies, you are mistaken!
PAULINE
Nobody won't believe me that I had a baby. My intended he wrote me a letter an' he says it ain't true an' that I'm a liar an' a low creature. [She touches the pillow on which the infant is resting.] It's mine an' I'll prove it in court! I c'n swear it by the holy Mother o' God.