Kneirtje.

Don’t want to pray?

Jo.

[Excitedly.] If anything happens——

Kneirtje.

[Vehemently.] Nothing will happen!

Jo.

[Wildly.] If anything—anything—anything—then I’ll never pray again, never again. Then there is no God. No Mother Mary—then there is nothing—nothing——

Kneirtje.

[Anxiously.] Don’t talk like that.