JEANNE
Pierre, it will soon be time for you to leave. I'll give you something to eat at once. Pierre, do you think it is true that they are killing women and children? I don't know.
PIERRE
It is true, mother.
EMIL GRELIEU
How can you say it, Jeanne? You don't know?
JEANNE
I say this on account of the children. Yes, there they write that they are killing children, so they write there. And all this was crowded upon that little slip of paper—and the children, as well as the fire—
Rises quickly and walks away, humming.
EMIL GRELIEU