PIPER
You are some foreign woman. Are you not?
Never from Hamelin!

VERONIKA
No.

AXEL'S WIFE
[to her child]
Then run along.
And ask the Piper if he'll play again
The tune that charmed the rats.

ANOTHER
They might come back!

OLD URSULA
[calling from her window]
Piper! I want the tune that charmed the rats!
If they come back, I'll have my grandson play it.

PIPER
I pipe but for the children.

ILSE
[dropping her doll and picking it up]
Oh, do pipe
Something for Fridolin!

HANSEL