you be so vile as to try to use me to hide your adultery? LAVINIA--You've quarrelled with your mother and Hazel--on
(determinedly) But
She
changed while you've been away! adds gruffly) But I'd like you to explain how this Brant
SILVA--And I'll water your grave every Sunday after church! be foolish to expect anything but cheap romantic lies from the
you, Mother? Except for the
I've tried to trace to its secret hiding place in
ORIN--(mockingly) Adam Brant was a ship's officer, too,
Hazel. mother's in Act One of "Homecoming." hound me, until the curse is paid out and the last Mannon is let
(Then he is struck by what she
Light appears between the chinks of the shutters in
Christine begins to speak in a low voice, coolly
He appraises her with a calculating look,
and asked me if he might drop in to see you.
CHRISTINE--Yes, I dared!
CHRISTINE--I mustn't sleep!
important than rubbish to be got rid of. You must go to bed soon,
ORIN--Yes! I was only
She gives no sign of having heard him. (She goes to the window
I'm going to make him promise to come over tomorrow, no matter
house--alive! step but lurches into the shadow and leans against the
steps until she stands at the top between the two columns of the
LAVINIA--(turning to look around) Why, he was right
LAVINIA--(in a quick whisper) Don't let her know you
In the
Let's go in. LAVINIA--I know it is, Peter, but you can't do anything with
(He sings with a
Was there anything in what Orin wrote that
leans back and closes her eyes again--bitterly) I hope there
That's what mother used to say it reminded
Come
of murder!
ORIN--(longingly) Yes! I don't mean only how pretty
Be quiet! Mother! back and disband my brigade. know he didn't have no heart in him! What's that? she doesn't hurry back to stand watch over us. Mother warned me. that!
table--in a faint, trembling voice) Orin! You never used to say a word unless you had to! (He chuckles
When he had gone there
mask. (then forcing a perky bravado)
CHRISTINE--Don't stand, dear. words like an officer giving orders. very fond of Vinnie but he knew how jealous she's always been of
You oughtn't to say that! CHRISTINE--(tauntingly) If? (forcing back her anger) And see that you get rid
We three have been
untwines the fingers of her clasped hands with a slow wringing
He's always
must do your duty again! CHRISTINE--Judge Mannon then. self-conscious and stiff. Go out now!
worried and brooded until I really believe she went a little out
HAZEL--(kisses her--pityingly) I'll be as quick as I
I've got used to the feel of camps with thousands
hates her!
murdered until no one was left alive! (looks around
Doctor Blake
the blinds closed and the lamp burning even in the daytime. CHRISTINE--But I wrote you much more! The chantyman goes on maudlinly.) MANNON--Wait! LAVINIA--(in a dead voice) I can't marry you, Peter. black column in striking contrast to the white columns of the
The sound of the singing seems to strike a
Marry someone else. find out things! Orin suspected I'd
because I recalled Ezra Mannon to you! lets go and steps away from her.
Don't you know I'm your sister,
at least. CHRISTINE--Didn't you say you wanted to kill him? worriedly) I seed you settin' out here on the steps when I
It is still
LAVINIA--(her voice strident, as if her will were
the bed, and flings her arms around the dead man. weren't they, Vinnie?--with colored rags around their middles and
He always brought me news of Father. happened. movement which recalls her mother in the last Act of "The
been struck. ORIN--(staring at her bewilderedly) You mean--Mother? Then she jerks her
She kisses you
is looking off right, watching her mother as she strolls
together, the shoulders square, the head upright, is like that of
the First Act of "Homecoming." of her face there are deep lines about her mouth, and her eyes
As
SMALL--(with an uneasy glance at the house) It's her
CHRISTINE--Really, this unconfirmed report must have turned
that foolishness about Brant tonight.
Wait! He'll still be in his prime when
I don't
You know how them things grow. You'd better meet me
was!--if it took her last cent and her last strap! It filled you with pride! In this dim, spotty light the
controls herself with a terrible effort of will. distract his mind from these reflections, he turns to gaze down
crony doing his best to listen now! notice her entrance. LAVINIA--(recovering herself--curtly) No.
jealous and mad and said things he was sorry for after and it
PETER--'Course it won't. accident--.
that scandal? LAVINIA--(furiously) How can you lie like that?
Colonial days. decided to come home again last night.
He never was
written complaining of pains about his heart? someone--now after it's all past and forgotten--when there isn't
ship captain. (Seth pretends not to hear the question,
Christine returns from the hall, closing the sliding
Seth has a stone jug in his hand. Oh, Adam, it's the only thing we can do! in my mind and I would try to look at them. (then after a pause) But the night
ORIN--(speaking to Vinnie as they enter--harshly) You
Oh, no, Vinnie! ORIN--(with a change to a harsh threatening tone) I
me! this Captain Brant who's been calling on you? LAVINIA--(frightenedly--grabbing his arm) Hurry! face when he knows you love Marie Brantôme's son! LAVINIA--(turning to Orin--sharply) I thought you were
I ain't been
(She throws off this thought--harshly)
MANNON--(going stiffly to meet her) Train was late. ORIN--(sardonically, addressing the portrait) The
(then quickly--with a
You're so like your father! locked in all day I was sure you were intentionally avoiding me. I'll jine you
pulling him by the arm--with a childish volubility) No! grandfather, Abe Mannon, as well as his brother, loved my
On the deck above
(If she had
in self-defense. Forget me. as her mother.
He
(pleading now) You can't! LAVINIA--Poor Father!
), CHRISTINE--When he was dying he pointed at me and told her I
him but is staring with open-mouthed awe at the house, he turns
"Homecoming."
her.) the fresh air. I'll help you plan it, as we planned
ORIN--Let her talk all she likes, Hazel. A surge of love and desire overcomes his timidity and he bursts
fightin' allowed! Don't be so damn pertic'lar! you are my mother, I say it! movement like a faint shudder but is immediately stiff and frozen
Don't shout like
I suppose I'd come to expect
over the dead man's heart.) Or, at least outlive me. (turning to the
live in as near the Garden of Paradise before sin was discovered
What are you
(He chuckles to himself with a queer
I will! whiskey, half full, with a glass and a pitcher of water. Then
I never could when you looked at me. I--she wants to go there--with him! I wanted to desert and
Then she turns and stands in tense
The walls are plain plastered
ORIN--Mother! Oh, I know you think you know where you're going, but there's
LAVINIA--I know.
There ain't no sech thing as ghosts! Orin is standing by the head of the bier, at the rear of
Tell her
Her mother seemed real angry
All the shutters are closed. seemed to! ), LAVINIA--I had a horrible dream--I thought I heard Father
What's made you like this? (A woman's figure
SETH--(unabashed, approaches the steps--with a grin)
I thought it peculiar. CHRISTINE--(with a cry of terror) Oh--oh! are you? desperation.). jumping to his feet--brusquely) Let's change the subject! His
ORIN--(pushes her away--with a rough brotherly
I'll make her go right enough! that he is silenced. in the study. (after a pause) When do you expect your father home? Course Hero. ORIN--You're doing the lying!
BRANT--(brought back with a shock, astonished at her
dressed with an almost foppish extravagance, with touches of
by it to listen. (They go
Vinnie. I saw it there one
You feel something cold grip you the moment you set foot--, PETER--Oh, nonsense! box from her hand.) laughs and goes off down the drive, left front. say to 'em. telling him--"I love you, Adam"--and kissing him! can be a sin. The light of a half moon falls on the house, giving it an unreal,
me of someone. It's you who have stolen all love
you're the same, thank goodness! So does Orin who uneasily comes to
town about this house bein' haunted.
Then he asks slowly) Ain't you noticed this Brant
CHRISTINE--(desperately) It was the first time I had
nothin' about 'em afterwards--'ceptin' your Grandpaw let out to
It certainly is becoming. Christine is about to protest indignantly) Oh! pause) I feel strange, Christine. box held out behind her, as if seeking a hiding place. mother! CHRISTINE--(turning to stare at him--slowly) You can
(lowering her voice almost to a
For months after we sailed you didn't know what you were
He's fainted! (She kisses him passionately. HAZEL--(quietly) It won't take me long to say what I've
ORIN--(in a sudden strange tone of jeering malice) Did
I only think you've been
listening to my gloomy thoughts! You said you would do anything for me. honorable Mannon dead would be dragged through the horror of a
and only the part aft of the mizzenmast is visible with the curve
What is it
lips, as if she were restraining a derisive smile) You can't
think, to hear you, I had no life of my own! (with a sudden flurry of jealousy)
And I had planned it all so carefully. I thought I'd
All the shutters are closed. CHRISTINE--(scornfully) Do you imagine you could force
(She gives no sign of
(then suspiciously) What are you
Orin is sitting
you I'll never see Adam again after he calls this evening.
(Then
picture the green beauty of their land set in the blue of the
I know something is worrying you--and I don't want to
him take me from you now, Adam? They've always been so
He pushes his back up against the head of the bed in a
Course Hero, Inc. As a reminder, you may only use Course Hero content for your own personal use and may not copy, distribute, or otherwise exploit it for any other purpose. the way home and wondering--I was so afraid you might have. MANNON--When I came back you had turned to your new baby,
What would Vinnie say if she
steps.).
pride--and I know how anxious you are to keep the family from
you're going to hear it now! all feeling of respect--.
You haven't told me about that Brant yet. he is tonight most of the time. good! We won't ever think about it again! Orin asked me to make him read it before he
dollar) Here! that--! I don't believe--You--you couldn't! I'm goin' round by the
Oh, God, I'm afraid to
LAVINIA--(grabbing her by the shoulders--fiercely)
following me everywhere--and stare at me like that? the close of the preceding act. He carries himself woodenly erect now like a
laugh--then shamefacedly) I meant to look at him the first
run off and marry him! (She pulls him away
CHANTYMAN--(not heeding this--sadly) Aye, but it ain't
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