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Yes?

[She looks at him intently

We don’t aim to be hard, and we don’t want it said we was mean about it; you can stay on here, if you want to, until after the funeral, maybe a little longer, and I don’t know but what between us, we’d be willing to help you till you found a place somewheres.

You can’t help me, any of you. Of course now she ’s dead, I ’ll go. I ’ll be glad to go.

Glad!

(turns on them)

I hate you, the whole raft of you. I ’ll be glad to get away from you. She was the only one of you worth loving, and she did n’t want it.

If that’s how you feel, I say the sooner you went the better.

Not till after the funeral. I don’t want it said we was hard to her.

(quietly)

Jane isn’t going at all, Henry.

What ’s that?

Of course she ’s going.

No, she belongs here in this house.