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[Quickly.] Mother, tell me what it is you know!

I know everything. I know that your aunt has come here to take you from me.

Aunt Ella!

Oh, listen to me a moment, Erhart!

[Continuing.] She wants me to give you up to her. She wants to stand in your mother's place to you, Erhart! She wants you to be her son, and not mine, from this time forward. She wants you to inherit everything from her; to renounce your own name and take hers instead!

Aunt Ella, is this true?

Yes, it is true.

I knew nothing of this. Why do you want to have me with you again?

Because I feel that I am losing you here.