Geert.

[Calmly to the others.] Gone crazy——

Bos.

[More angry.] The police have been notified.

Geert.

[With forced calm.] You and the police make me tired. [Cobus and Daantje slink away, stopping outside to listen at the window.] Are you out of your head? Who said I wasn’t going?

Kneir.

Yes, Meneer, he is all ready to go.

Bos.

That other boy of yours that Hengst engaged—refuses to go.