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I sent for you, Ben.

I won’t budge.

(wearily)

Must we go through all this again?

I ain’t going to move out of this chair to-day. You do what you damned please.

I am sorry, but you must.

Send for Jim Jay, have me locked up, do as you please. Oh, I ’ve said it before, but this time I mean it.

And you won’t come?

No.

Then I ’ll do the best I can alone.

[''She crosses up to wall closet and opens it and selects a large bottle, and turns. Ben rises quickly''.

What do you want of that?

It ’s one of the horses. I don’t know what ’s the matter with her. She ’s down in her stall, just breathing, She won’t pay any attention to me.

Old Nellie?

Yes.