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I thought that nobody’d come back, that we alone were left there, that all the rest perished!

 

First Disabled Soldier:

Why, I saw you——

 

The Lover:

I have come——

 

Second Disabled Soldier:

Why, we saw you——

 

The Lover:

Dead or alive, I had to come.

 

First Disabled Soldier:

Dead——

 

The Lover:

Dead or alive, that is all one to me. But I vowed——

 

Second Disabled Soldier:

What?

 

The Lover:

Nothing.

 

An Old Mother:

My son! No, that is not my son! Did you not see my son? Hasn’t he returned yet? He is not among you. My boy!

 

Third Disabled Soldier:

We don’t know. Perhaps—there’ll be some more coming back.