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So ’s her window.

I know folks in this town that are scared to go past it.

(to her)

I know others that ought to be.

(discouraged)

Every time you folks meet there ’s trouble.

[Jane enters down the stairs and into the room.

(looks at her)

Well, Jane?

No change. It ’s—it ’s pitiful, to see her like that.

[Sadie sobs and covers her face.

It ’s best we should try to bear this without any fuss, she ’d ’a’ wanted it that way.

She did n’t even want me to cry when poor Will died, but I did; and somehow I don’t know but it made things easier.

When father died she did n’t shed a tear; she ’s been a strong woman, always.

[The early fall twilight has come on and the stage is rather dim, the hall at R. is in deep shadow, at the end of Henry’s speech the outside door supposedly out at R. is open, then shut rather violently.

(startled)

Someone ’s come in.

Nobody ’s got any right

[She rises as some one is heard coming along the hall.