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Icebound, you said. Maybe it don’t have to be like that. Sometimes, just lately, it ’s seemed to me that if folks would try, things need n’t be so bad. All of ’em try, I mean, for themselves, and for everybody else.

If I was you, I ’d go out somewheres and hire a hall.

If you ’d put some pork fat on those shoes to-night, your feet would n’t hurt so bad.

Maybe.

[''He sits looking moodily into the fire. After a moment’s hesitation, Jane crosses and sits in the chair beside his, the evening shadows deepen around them but the glow from the fire lights their faces''.

I ’m lonesome to-night. We always made a lot of birthdays when I was a girl.

Some do.

Your mother did n’t. She found me once trying, the day I was fifteen. I remember how she laughed at me.

All the Jordans have got a sense of humor.

She was n’t a Jordan, not until she married your father.