ALL [savagely] No, mine, mine, mine!
MARTIN'S WIFE
What, that lame boy of hers?
PIPER
Where is the wife of Kurt?
PETER the Cobbler AND OTHERS
—Veronika?
The foreign woman? She is lying ill:
Sore-stricken yonder—
[Pointing to the house.]
PIPER [gladly] Bid her come, look out!
[The crowd moves confusedly towards KURT'S house. The PIPER too approaches, calling]
Ho,—ho, within there!
[ANSELM, the priest, appears in the doorway with uplifted hand, commanding silence. He is pale and stern. At sight of his face the PIPER, falters.
ANSELM
Silence here!—Good people
What means this?
PIPER
I have tidings for—the wife
Of Kurt—the Councillor.