The Girl from the Marsh Croft Page #4

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He'll know what I mean.

What about you?

Shouldn't he say anything about you?

He can't praise me enough.

The money, the farm,

cattle and fields.

But I don't want Karsten

to look unimportant next to me.

Would you like me to help you?

Do you want me to help you?

Help? No.

I don't need any help.

It's nothing, not even worth it.

What are you standing there?

Take this...

Take the milk outside.

There's nobody around here.

Nobody who would need it.

Isn't the bowl

empty every morning?

That's probably the goat

or some animal from

the swamp drinking the milk.

You probably picked that up

on the Dittmar Farm?

As if there were no more ghosts just

because there's goats roaming the swamps?

Do you really think

there's a ghost,

in our house?

Who else going to help us?

What are you going

to say to when he arrives?

Don't be silly,

she going to say Yes.

"Yes"? That's sparse!

On her wedding day,

the bride can't talk

to the groom

before he has made his speech.

He can talk,

he gets a whole speech!

What is he going to say?

The bride awaits the groom.

She hands him a flower out of

the her bridal crown.

- But first he recites his speech.

- Naturally.

Listen.

The groom walks up to the bride

and he says:

"Gertrud Gerhart,."

"I, Karsten Dittmar,

have come to ask you"

"if you want to be my woman."

Does he really say "woman"?

That's funny!

It's an old tradition

me and Karsten,

we want to keep it alive.

All my best wishes, Karsten,

all my best wishes.

Mother...

Is something wrong, my boy?

It's nothing.

Did you forget something?

It's nothing.

Let's go!

They're probably waiting for us.

I waited for you. I wanted to

wish you luck.

Why didn't you come to the farm?

Thank you, Helga.

- Do you have something to tell her?

- No.

No, it's nothing.

When I married your mother,

we drive along this very road,

me and my father.

My father drove me

to your mother.

Today, I'll do the same for you.

Maybe you think of this,

one day,

when you're in my shoes.

- Do you have something to tell me?

- Yes.

You're all too good to me.

Father, I have to tell

you something horrible!

You don't have to tell me,

I know already.

But I'm happy

that you decided to talk.

When Gertrut grabs

the bridal crown...

To hand a flower to the groom...

That's when the music

should start playing.

They're coming!

He is going to say: "Gertrud Gerhart",

"I, Karsten Dittmar, have come..."

Gertrud Gerhart,

I, Karsten Dittmar,

have come to tell you...

that I have

to call off my proposal,

because I killed a man,

after I got drunk.

I don't know his name,

or what he looks like,

and how it happened,

but it had to be me.

You don't know

if you killed a man?

All I know,

is that they found a piece of a knife

in his head and that

my knife is broken.

It has not yet been proven,

that Karsten is the culprit.

But obviously you demand

that we re-schedule the wedding

until we know the truth.

I think...

Karsten, knows what he is doing.

Gertrud is right, Father,

it doesn't make any

sense to call off the wedding.

You could have come clean earlier.

You didn't have

to drag us into this.

Go right to the tribunal

and notify them.

I want to see Mother,

before I join you in court.

- The wedding is off.

- They called it off?

He killed a man.

He says he doesn't remember,

but the blade of his knife

is broken in half.

The blade of his knife?

A lovely groom,

this Karsten Dittmar is, isn't he?

Yes, I agree.

Gertrud was lucky that the

wedding was canceled.

He got so drunk,

he can't remember what he did!

Maybe he didn't do it.

I have to talk to Karsten Dittmar.

It's not here anymore.

Miss Gertrud,

you must come with me

and go see Karsten.

He's innocent, it's all my fault.

He gave me his knife to

cut the pinewood and I broke it.

The very same knife?

But Miss Gertrud,

Karsten is not a killer!

Come with me!

Don't tell him I was here,

you have to meet him by yourself

and tell him that

everything's going to be alright.

That you love him,

even if he's guilty.

Did you know it was me

who wanted to send you home?

Yes, I knew

it couldn't have been Karsten

or his parents

that wanted me out of there.

But come on!

My carriage!

It wasn't you.

When I arrived at the courthouse,

they already had a culprit,

a sailor.

You didn't kill that man

by the river.

Now you can sit

at your wedding table,

next to your wife Gertrud.

I'm sorry about how I behaved

this morning.

I came to tell you...

I want to say

that I will always support you

even if you...

It's wonderful that you came, but...

I don't want you to think

that I'm better than I really am.

Helga told me

that you're innocent.

She was the one

who sent me here,

to straighten everything out.

Helga wants us to work things out?

Because she loves you.

Nobody on earth can love you

as much as she does.

And you're telling me this?

Yes.

Because I,

Gertrud Gerhart, am not going to be

humiliated by some other woman.

I just wanted to tell you:

You have no idea

how much I appreciate your friendship.

Gertrud left?

Mother,

what would you say if I were to bring

you a different daughter-in-law?

I'm fine with every woman,

who loves you as much as

a good wife should love her husband.

Tell Father I'm going to see Helga.

Karsten is visiting Helga.

What do you say?

I'll say that; Now

I probably won't have to

say anything for quite some time.

I'm going to shut up again.

Here you are, Helga!

I wanted to tell you,

the wedding is canceled.

But you had everything set up already?

Yes, that's why my mother,

still wants me to get married,

but not to Gertrud.

Because from today on

I know that I love someone else,

and that someone, is you.

Me?

Yes.

So I came to ask

the girl from the Marshland Farm

if she wants to be my wife.

Why are you running away from me, Helga?

- Are you scared of me?

- No.

I think I am.

But why?

Because...

I love you so much!

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