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124 Frank Wedekind
Come here, child, come here, I ll tell you! I ll tell you
everything ... In order to have a child one must
love the man to whom one is married love him,
I tell you as one can only love a man ! One must love
him so much with one s whole heart, so so that one
can t describe it! One must love him, Wendla, as you
at your age are still unable to love Now you know it !
How much Wendla knew, her mother found
out when too late.
Wendla and Melchior, overtaken by a storm,
seek shelter in a haystack, and are drawn by what
Melchior calls the
"
first emotion of manhood "
and curiosity into each other s arms. Six months
later Wendla s mother discovers that her child is
to become a mother. To save the family honor,
the girl is promptly placed in the hands of a quack
who treats her for chlorosis.
Wendla. No, Mother, no! I know it. I feel it. I
haven t chlorosis. I have dropsy I won t get better.
I have the dropsy, I must die, Mother O, Mother,
I must die!
Frau Bergmann. You must not die, child! You
must not die Great heavens, you must not die!
Wendla. But why do you weep so frightfully, then?
Frau Bergmann. You must not die, child! You
haven t the dropsy, you have a child, girl! You have a
child! Oh, why did you do that to me?
Wendla. I haven t done anything to you.
Frau Bergmann. Oh, don t deny it any more,
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