The Town:
I wonder what that woman that came home with him thinks about it, now he’s taken another one. If I were that Saunders girl I wouldn’t take a man that brought another woman right up to my door, you might say. And that new one, what’ll she do now? Go away and get another man, I guess. Hope she’ll learn enough to get a well one this time. … Funny goings-on in that house. And a preacher of the gospel, too. Even if he is Episcopal. If he wasn’t such a nice man. …
George Farr:
It isn’t true, Cecily, darling, sweetheart. You can’t, you can’t. After your body prone and narrow as a pool dividing. …
The Town:
I hear that boy of Mahon’s, that hurt fellow, and that girl of Saunders’ are going to get married. My wife said they never would, but I said all the time …
Mrs. Burney:
Men don’t know. They should of looked out for him better. Saying he never wanted for nothing. …
George Farr:
Cecily, Cecily. … Is this death?
The Town:
There’s that soldier that came with Mahon. I guess that woman will take him now. But maybe she don’t have to. He might have been saving time himself.
Well, wouldn’t you, if you was him?
Sergeant Madden:
Powers. Powers. … A man’s face spitted like a moth on a lance of flame. Powers. … Rotten luck for her.
Mrs. Burney:
Dewey, my boy. …
Sergeant Madden:
No, ma’am. He was all right. We did all we could. …
Cecily Saunders:
Yes, yes, Donald. I will, I will! I will get used to your poor face, Donald! George, my dear love, take me away, George!
Sergeant Madden:
Yes, yes, he was all right. … A man on a fire-step, screaming with fear.
George Farr:
Cecily, how could you? How could you?
The Town:
That girl … time she was took in hand by somebody. Running around town nearly nekkid. Good thing he’s blind, ain’t it?
Guess she hopes he’ll stay blind, too. …
Margaret Powers:
No, no, goodbye, dear dead Dick, ugly dead Dick. …
Joe Gilligan:
He is dying, he gets the woman he doesn’t want even, while I am not dying. … Margaret, what shall I do? What can I say?
Emmy:
Come here, Emmy? Ah, come to me, Donald. But he is dead.
Cecily Saunders:
George, my lover, my poor dear. … What have we done?
Mrs. Burney:
Dewey, Dewey, so brave, so young. …
(This was Donald, my son. He is dead.)