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I mean you’ve got to stand by me if you marry me.

[''She looks at him helplessly. He meets her gaze firmly, without flinching''.]

[Breaks down, sobbing]

But it ain’t right! You know it ain’t right to go ag’in’ my own blood!

Well, nobody ain’t a-makin’ you marry me.

[Turns on him angrily]

What do you keep on a-sayin’ that fer when it ain’t so! You know I cain’t do nothin’ else!

[She sobs incoherently and puts her arms about him.]

[Embracing her tenderly]

I sorter hoped you couldn’t, Jude. But I wanted you to find out fer yourself.

[Still sobbing]

I’m a-goin’ to do what’s right, but it’s terrible hard. Andy’s my own brother! ’Tain’t in human nacher to