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the leave.  puts  ''on the ground and hides her face in her hands. Her shoulders shake as if she were sobbing. stares at her with a grim, somber expression.  walks backward toward, her wondering eyes fixed on her mother''.]

—[Her voice vaguely frightened, taking her father’s hand.] Dada, Mama’s cryin’, Dada.

—[Bending down and stroking her hair—in a voice he endeavors to keep from being harsh.] No, she isn’t, little girl. The sun hurts her eyes, that’s all. Aren’t you beginning to feel hungry, Mary?

—[Decidedly.] Yes, Dada.

—[Meaningly.] It must be your dinner time now.

—[In a muffled voice.] I’m coming, Mary. [She wipes her eyes quickly and, without looking at, comes and takes hand—in a dead voice.] Come on and I’ll get your dinner for you. [She walks out left, her eyes fixed on the ground, the skipping tugging at her hand.  waits a moment for them to get ahead and then slowly follows as