Act 1 Flashcards
(43 cards)
Henry: “She didn’t want anybody up there but Jane and Hannah.”
Ella: “But we’re her own children.”
(Jane Enters)
(Jane enters) I’m out to the drugstore. To get something for her.
Ella: “You ought to be.”
Henry: “If there’s any gratitude in the world.”
Yes. (Jane leaves)
Henry: “…leavin’ Ben out, of course. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”
(Jane Enters)
(Jane enter) I met Judge Bradford on the way.
Ella: “In the midst of life we are in death.”
Henry: “It’s our duty to hope so long as we can.”
Judge: “Yes, of course.”
I’ll take this right up. (Jane leaves)
Ella: “She’d cut him off, she said, the last time he disgraced us, and she’s a woman of her word.”
(Jane enters)
Judge: “Well Jane?”
No change. It’s…It’s pitiful, to see her like that.
(Loud door slam!)
Ella: “Someone’s here.”
Henry: “Who’s that out there? Who is it?”
I’m glad you’ve come, Ben.
Jane: “I’m glad you’ve come, Ben.”
Ben: “You are?”
Yes. Your mother is awful sick.
Jane: “Your mother is awful sick.”
Ben: “She’s alive?”
Yes.
Ben: “She sent me word, to Bangor.”
Ella: “How’d you know where he was?”
I knew.
Ella: “Do mother tell you to…?”
Ben: “Of course she did!”
No, she didn’t.
Henry: “You sent your own money?”
Yes. As he said it wasn’t much, but I didn’t have much.
Jane: “…I didn’t have much.”
Ben: “Why’d you do it?”
I knew she was going to die; twice I asked her if she wanted to see you, and she said no–
Henry: “And yet you sent for him?”
Jane: “Yes.”
Henry: “Why?”
He was the one she really wanted. I thought she’d die happier seeing him.
Ella: “You took a lot on yourself, didn’t you?”
Yes. She’s been a lonely old woman. I hated to think of her there, in the churchyard, hungry for him.
Jane: “…hungry for him.”
Ben: “I’ll go to her.”
It’s too late. She wouldn’t know you.
Henry: “…No, the Jordans won’t ever be the same.”
Judge: “Will you let me help you, Jane?”
Hannah and I can attend to everything. Henry! You might come over for a minute this evening and we can talk things over. I’ll make the bed up in your old room, Ben, if you want to stay.
Ella: “You tell her now or I will.”
Tell me what?
Henry: “…and 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.
Jane: “I’ll be glad to go.”
Ella: “Glad!”
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 didn’t want it!
Judge: “Yes, everything–your mother’s whole estate.”
That can’t be, Judge, you must be wrong. It’s a mistake.
Judge: “…It’s been over a year since the Grand Jury indicted you for arson.”
Ben: “You mean you’ll give me up?”
You won’t do that, Judge; you’re here as her friend.
Judge: “No, but if it’s known he’s here, I couldn’t save him. And it’s bound to be known.”
Were you careful coming?
Ben: “…All I know is one thing,–when they put her into her grave, her sons and daughter are goin’ to be standing there, like the Jordans always do.”
Hannah will have your room ready by now. There are some clean shirts and things that were your father’s; I’ll bring them to you.
Ben: “Can I go up there, just a minute?”
To your mother?
