ETHEL
But there is some one there?—some one that you've cared for?
PIKE
[sadly]
Well, she's only been there in a way. I've had her picture on my desk for a good while. Sometimes when I go home in the evening she kind of seems to be there. I bought a homey old house up on Main Street, you know; it's the house you were born in. It's kind of lonesome sometimes, and then I get to thinking that she's there, sitting at an old piano, that used to be my mother's, and singing to me—
ETHEL
[smiling sorrowfully]
Singing "Sweet Genevieve"?
PIKE
Yes—that's my favorite. But then I come to and I find it ain't so, no voice comes to me, and I find there ain't anybody but me,