[Sobbing.] Your child! Magdalene!

[Schwartze staggers, and is supported by the Pastor. Mrs. Schwartze cries out. A pause.]

SCHWARTZE.

Pastor?

HEFFTERDINGT.

It is true.

SCHWARTZE.

[Standing up.] Magdalene is no longer my child.

FRANZISKA.

Ah, just wait. If you listen, you'll look at it in quite another light. Such a child you will welcome with open arms.