[drawing nearer]
Is this your Boy?

VERONIKA
Ay, he is mine;
My only one. He loved thy piping so.

PIPER
And I loved his.

HANS' WIFE
[stridently]
Poor little boy! He's lame!

PIPER
'T is all of us are lame! But he, he flies.

VERONIKA
Jan, stay here if you will, and hear the pipe,
At Church-time.

PIPER
[to him]
Wilt thou?

JAN
[softly]
Mother lets me stay
Here with the Lonely Man.