VALET. He is waiting outside.
JEPPE. Tell him to come in immediately.
[Enter the Bailiff in a coat with silver buttons and a sword-belt over his shoulder.]
BAILIFF. Has his lordship any orders?
JEPPE. Only that you are to be hanged.
BAILIFF. I have surely done no wrong, my lord! Why should I be hanged?
JEPPE. Are you not the bailiff?
BAILIFF. Yes, indeed, your lordship.
JEPPE. And yet you ask why you should be hanged?
BAILIFF. I have served your lordship so honestly and faithfully and have been so diligent in my office that your lordship has always praised me more than any other of his servants.