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Frau Bergmann has returned home from her eldest daughter’s house - Ina has given birth to a little boy. Wendla is excited at this news, but confused. She is fourteen, and an aunt again, yet has no idea how babies happen, and refuses to believe in the stork anymore. She pesters Frau Bergmann to explain where babies come from, until she finally wears her mother down. Frau Bergmann, however, is anxious to avoid scandal (that she had talked with her daughter about sex), and instead presents a
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_Early morning in the front room of the Bergmann home, Frau Bergmann enters, beaming and excited. She wears her cape, a mantilla on her head and basket on her arm. _
FRAU BERGMANN: Wendla! Wendla!
Wendla appears in petticoats and corset in the doorway.
WENDLA: What's the matter, Mother?
FRAU BERGMANN: You are up already, child? Now, that is nice of you!
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