Bos.

No! Stay here! she’s coming to. [Kneir. with long drawn out sobs, sits looking before her with a dazed stare.]

Kaps.

Kneir——

Bos.

Keep still! Let her have her cry.

Kneirtje.

[In an agonized voice, broken with sobs.] He didn’t want to go! He didn’t want to go! And with my own hands I loosened his fingers from the door post. [Moans softly.]

Bos.

[In a muffled voice.] You have no cause to reproach yourself——