JEPPE. Oh, dear Nille, don't beat me any more; you don't know all that has happened to me.
NILLE. Where have you been all this time, you guzzler? Where is the soap you were to buy?
JEPPE. I couldn't get to town, Nille.
NILLE. Why not?
JEPPE. I was taken up to paradise on the way.
NILLE. To paradise! [Hits him.] To paradise. [Hits him again.] Are you going to make sport of me into the bargain?
JEPPE. O—o—o—! As true as I'm an honest man, it's so!
NILLE. What's so?
JEPPE. That I have been in paradise. [Nille repeats "in paradise," hitting him each time.] Oh, Nille, dear, don't beat me!
NILLE. Quick, confess where you've been, or I'll trounce the life out of you.