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- but only of this and that,-
- forget what's awry and crooked,
- and all that is sharp and sore.-
- Why see now, the same old pussy;
- so she is alive then, still?
ASE
- She makes such a noise o' nights now;
- you know what that bodes, my boy!
PEER [changing the subject].
- What news is there here in the parish?
ASE [smiling].
- There's somewhere about, they say,
- a girl who would fain to the uplands-
PEER [hastily].
- Mads Moen, is he content?
ASE
- They say that she hears and heeds not
- the old people's prayers and tears.
- You ought to look in and see them;-
- you, Peer, might perhaps bring help-
PEER
- The smith, what's become of him now?
ASE
- Don't talk of that filthy smith
