STRANGER
What folly this is! What can you do with it? That diamond means death to you. Death! Destruction! You haven’t a chance of keeping it. You’re mad. Your lives now are not worth a minute’s purchase.
MISS PERKINS
Give it up, Ma. I’ll tell you where it is. It’s——
MRS PERKINS
(In a terrible voice.) Stop!
MR PERKINS
What can you do, Ma? Chuck it! Chuck it!
MRS PERKINS