Mother:
Yes, he was my boy—my first-born.
Hedwig:
Your first-born, and this is the end.
[She rises up in unutterable wrath and despair.]
O God!
Mother: [Anxious for her.]
Promise me you will be careful, Hedwig. For the sake of your child, your first-born, that is to be—
Hedwig:
My child? For this end? For the empire—the war that is to be? No!