I wasna to know what 'ud happen.
GRANDMOTHER (not heeding him, but weeping all the time) But the Lord gave him time to repent. He'd have a few minutes to repent. Ay, I hope he did, I hope he did, else what was to become of him. The Lord cut him off in his sins, but He gave him time to repent.
[Rigley looks away at the wall. Blackmore has made a space in the middle of the floor.
BLACKMORE
If you'll take the rocking-chair off the end of the rug, Mrs. Holroyd, I can pull it back a bit from the fire, and we can lay him on that.
GRANDMOTHER (petulantly)
What's the good of messing about—(She moves)
MRS. HOLROYD
It suffocated him?