VERONIKA
An if he could!
PIPER
[like a wounded animal]
You hurt me
Somewhere,—you hurt me!
VERONIKA
You!—A man of air?
PIPER
What, am I that?
VERONIKA
What are you?—Give them back!
Give them to me, I say. You have them hidden.
Are they all living?
PIPER [struggling with pity] Yes, yes.
VERONIKA
Give them back!
PIPER
No.
VERONIKA
But they live, they live?
PIPER
—Wilt thou believe me?