MRS. HALL. Keep quiet! I have as much right here as you.
MISS THÉRÈSE. Why have you been drinking again? Think if some one should come!
MRS. HALL. I haven't been drinking. What nonsense!
MISS AMÉLIE. We will be ruined if the doctor should come back and see you. Come, let's go in here and you can get a glass of water.
MRS. HALL. It's nice of you to treat your mother like this and say that she has been drinking, to say such a thing to your own mother!
MISS THÉRÈSE. Don't talk, but go in, immediately.
[They lead her in right. Axel and Carl come in from the orchard.]
CARL. Well, you're looking fine, my dear Axel, and you have a manlier bearing than you used to have.
AXEL. Yes, I have emancipated myself.
CARL. You should have done that at the start, as I did.