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What would you have done if you had discoveredme? Ill show you the handiest
place to say yourprayers. What would Vinnie say if she knew youdid such
things?
You see, hedhad a quarrel with her that last night. What would Vinnie
say if she knew youdid such things? But it will prove a strange reason,
Imcertain of that, when I do discover it! How elsecould you ever have imagined
you loved that low swine!
You never used to say a word unless you had to! And I
was just telling herhow well she looked in color. Well have a good spree on
that ten dollars.
The words shatter her mercifulnumbness and awaken her to
agony again.
There is something queerabout this house. Do you think she done it
furgrief over Ezras death, like the daughter let on to folks? Her brown-gold
hair is arranged as her mothershad been.
Seth Beckwith is there and Amos Ames,
who appeared in thefirst Act of Homecoming. In theflickering candlelight the
eyes of the Mannon portraits stare witha grim forbiddingness.
How elsecould you
ever have imagined you loved that low swine!
She gets him up the steps and they
passinto the house.
After all thats happened, areyou becoming her crybaby
again?
And Vinnie wouldnt mind when she knew why I done it.
In the lighted
room, thechange in her is strikingly apparent. I expected Vinnie and Orin back
this noon,but here its night and no sign of them.
You swore tome you were all
over them, or Id never have agreed to come home. Seth Beckwith is there and
Amos Ames, who appeared in thefirst Act of Homecoming.
His movementsand
attitudes have the statue-like quality that was so marked inhis father. She
said you were terribly frightened atbeing alone here.
Would you have gotten
your lover to murder me, Mother?
What we need most is to get back to simple
normalthings and begin a new life.
Tell himMother has killed herself in a fit
of insane grief over Fathersdeath.
Lavinia stares at Orin with eyes full of
dread. Then he goes to one of the windows and pushes back ashutter and stands
staring out. Ill show you the handiest place to say yourprayers.
Lavinia
regards her with bleak, condemningeyes.
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