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You don’t have to tell me, I brought both of you into the world. The right nursing might pull her through, even now; nothing else can, and I ’ve got the two women I want. (He crosses to Henry at stove) Why don’t you put a little wood on the fire?

Why—I thought ’twas warm enough.

Because you was standin’ in front of it gettin’ all the heat.

[Henry fills the stove from wood basket.

''Jane Crosby enters on stairs and crosses into the room. Jane is twenty-four, a plainly dressed girl of quiet manner, She has been “driven into herself” as one of our characters would describe it, by her lack of sympathy and affection and as a natural result she ts not especially articulate; she speaks, as a rule, m short sentences, and has cultivated an outward coldness that in the course of time has become almost aggressive''.

I ’ll go now, Doctor; you ’d better go back to her. Hannah’s frightened.

Get it as quick as you can, Jane; I don’t know as it ’s any use, but we ’ve got to keep on tryin’.

Yes.

[She exits; Doctor warms his hands.

Jane ’s been up with her three nights. I don’t know when I ’ve seen a more dependable girl.