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I don’t want you changed. I want you what you are, the best of you—just a man that loves me—if you do love me, Ben.

Can’t you help me to be fit?

I ’m going to do the thing I always meant to do—Good times and bad, Ben, I ’m going to share with you.

God knows I

Hush, Ben—I don’t want another promise.

What do you want?

You said I was a good sport once—You shook hands on what we ’d do to bring this old place back—there ’s plenty to be done. I ’ll stay and help you if you want me.

A good sport? (He takes her hand) I ’ll say you ’re all of that.

[Hannah enters.

If you ain’t careful you ’ll miss that train.

That ’s just what I want to do.

You ain’t going?

I ’m never going, Hannah.