All shudder when Mariet suddenly commences to speak: "Perhaps you think that all this is just, father?
Why, then, don't you ask me about it?
I am his wife.

Don't you believe that I am his wife?
Then I will bring little Noni here.

Do you want me to bring little Noni?
He is sleeping, but I will wake him up.

Once in his life he may wake up at night in order to say that this man whom you want to hang in the city is his father." "Don't!" says Haggart.
"Very well," replies Mariet obediently.

"He commands and I must obey--he is my husband.