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Pelagea’s son, Pavel, has been arrested for his participation in a
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PELAGEA: The warden will be watching very closely, but I’ve still got to find the names of the peasants who asked about our paper. I hope I’ll be able to remember all their names.
The Warden brings in Pavel
PELAGEA: Pavel!
PAVEL: How are you, mother?
[...]
WARDER: But visiting time is over.
PAVEL: Goodbye, mother.
PELAGEA: Goodbye, Pavel.
For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, Bloomsbury, 2015, pp. 84-87.
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