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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!
