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 * Peer! Your son?

ASE
 * Now you can say
 * you have seen how he behaves.

FIRST WOMAN
 * We'll bear witness.

ASE
 * Only help me;
 * straight to Hegstad I will hasten-

SECOND WOMAN
 * Is he there?

FIRST WOMAN
 * You'll be revenged, then;
 * Aslak Smith will be there too.

ASE [wringing her hands].
 * Oh, God help me with my boy;
 * they will kill him ere they're done!

FIRST WOMAN
 * Oh, that lot has oft been talked of;
 * comfort you: what must be must be!

SECOND WOMAN
 * She is utterly demented.
 * [Calls up the hill.]
 * Eivind, Anders! Hei! Come here!

A MAN'S VOICE
 * What's amiss?

SECOND WOMAN
 * Peer Gynt has perched his
 * mother on the mill-house roof!