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Gritta	What do you want, stranger? I f you have come to beg, I must disappoint you. I am a poor widow.
Gritta	My name is Gritta. Ever since my husband died, I have been running the household for my uncle, Thorben.
Me	Matteo sent me. You still owe him some gold.
Gritta	He wants his money? What for? The goods he delivered were flawed, bad fabric and bad seams.
Gritta	And did you look at the colors? Those are not the colors I ordered. That's fraud, it is!
Gritta	Let me tell you, back when my husband was alive, he wouldn't have dared to do that. Oh, my poor husband ...
Gritta	... such a good man he was. Handsome, hard-working, a gentleman of the old school. We had it all, wealth, happiness ...
Gritta	... sometimes we were even invited to high society events. The festivities, all the beautiful clothes and hairdos ...
Gritta	... the fine dining and civilized conversations. Everything was better back then. No one would have dared to humiliate the heart of a poor widow with such ...
Gritta	... ridiculous claims. Whatever shall I do? My pension is barely enough to make ends meet, and times are getting even rougher. One sees it everywhere ...
Gritta	... people must scrimp and save. It's been weeks since the last ship came to town. My husband was the captain of a merchant ship - actually, he even owned the ship...
Gritta	... from his long journeys, he always brought me presents - exquisite fabrics from the mainland, precious spices from the southern countries ...
Gritta	... most people haven't even heard of these things. But then, one day I got the tidings that the Gritta had sunk - that was the name of the ship, my husband called it that out of ...
Gritta	... love for me. I wept and prayed that my husband had survived the disaster, every day I hoped to hear from him, but all my longing was in vain ...
Gritta	... may Innos have mercy on his soul. May he rest in peace. Since that time I have been living under these modest circumstances, and now this soulless, callous Matteo ...
Gritta	... is after the last bit of my life savings. Please have mercy on a poor woman. Back when my husband was alive, he wouldn't have dared to do that. Oh, my poor husband ...
Me	Cut it out. Where's the gold?
Gritta	(defiantly) But I don't have the gold, I'm only a poor widow!
Me	Then we'll simply sell a few of your togs. I'm sure you've still got a bunch of stuff in your closet ...
Gritta	How dare you, uncouth lout! All right, here, take the gold.
Me	(grins) See, that wasn't so hard.
Gritta	(tartly) And now will you please leave my house.
Me	I'm going to pay the sum for you.
Gritta	You would do that for me? Oh, I knew you weren't a greedy bastard like that Matteo!
Me	Yeah, yeah, never mind.
Gritta	Come back once you've taken care of that - I want to show you my gratitude.
Me	(menacing) Fork over the dough, or I'll slug you one!
Gritta	(defiantly) You're nothing but a common thug. Go ahead, draw your weapon, and I'll call the guards!
Gritta	It was very noble of you to pay for me. I want to show you my gratitude.
Gritta	Here's a bottle of wine which my husband, may Innos rest his soul, brought back from the southern islands.
Gritta	Also, I'm going to spread the news around. At last there's somebody in town whose virtue ...
Me	Yeah, yeah, never mind.
Gritta	As long as there are men like you in this town, I still have the hope that everything will turn out well.
Gritta	Come back when the matter with Matteo is settled.
Gritta	Why are you staring like an idiot? You won't dare to attack me anyway!
Gritta	What else do you want? You've got my gold! Go away!
Me	How's it going?
Gritta	Everything's going to the dogs here. Wherever you look, there's crime and violence. Just imagine, they even murdered one of the paladins.
Gritta	Oh, I'm so thrilled, Lord Hagen has set the mercenary free.
Me	And how would that affect you?
Gritta	Just think about it. Do you believe the mercenaries would have stood by and watched one of their comrades get hanged?
Gritta	They would have tried to free him, and there would have been lots of bloodshed. I can only thank Innos.
Gritta	The paladins are getting ready, and it looks like they're going to move out soon.
Gritta	Same as always, but I don't want to complain.
Me	That's war for you, these things happen.
Gritta	Yes, there's this horrible war on top of it all. Everybody suffers and wonders how they are going to manage.
Gritta	Sometimes I ask myself what we have done to deserve such a punishment from Innos.
Me	It'll be all right.
Gritta	You're trying to cheer me up - that's nice.
Me	What have you heard?
Gritta	Only what they're telling each other in the street.
Gritta	I've heard that they already caught the murderer, but I can't tell you if that is true.