You'd better not if you want to save your soul! We may have a case here in which the circumstances are complicated in the extreme! It is possible, therefore, that you were about to swear in perfectly good faith. But you will have to admit that, though each of you may well be the mother of twins—two mothers for one child is unthinkable!
WALBURGA
[Who, like MRS. KNOBBE, has been staring steadily at the child.] Papa, papa, do look at the child a moment first!
MRS. KIELBACKE
[Tearfully and horrified.] Yes, the poor little crittur's been a-dyin', I believe, ever since I was in the other room there!
SCHIERKE
What?
HASSENREUTER
How? [Energetically he strides forward, and now regards the child carefully too.] The child is dead. There's no question about that! It seems that invisible to us, one has been in our midst who has delivered judgment, truly according to the manner of Solomon, concerning the poor little passive object of all this strife.