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don, do you mean I must give Sam the life I didn’t give you? Sam loved you too he said, if we have a boy, we’ll call him Gordon in Gordon’s honor  Gordon’s honor! what must I do now in your honor, Gordon? yes! I know!

[Speaking mechanically in a dull voice]

All right, Mother. I’ll stay with Sam. There’s nothing else I can do, is there, when it isn’t his fault, poor boy!

[Then suddenly snapping and bursting out in a despairing cry]

But I’ll be so lonely! I’ll have lost my baby!

[She sinks down on her knees at feet—piteously]

Oh, Mother, how can I keep on living?

[Thinking miserably]

Now she knows my suffering now I got to help her  she’s got a right to have a baby  another baby  sometime  somehow she’s giving her life to save my Sammy  I got to save her!

[Stammeringly]

Maybe, Nina—

[Dully and resentfully again now]

And how about Sam? You want him to be happy, don’t you? It’s just as important for him as it is for me that I should have a baby! If you know anything at all about him, you ought to see that!

[Sadly]

I know that. I see that in him, Nina.