Who sleeps that should not wake? Are you bewitched?

Hush me again, and you’ll be soundly switched!

As though I were a work brute to be dumb!

I’ll talk my fill!

Girl

O Mother, he has come——

Mother

(Her body straightening slightly from its habitual stoop)

Eh? Who might come that I would care to know

Since Ivan left?—He’s dead.