ROBERT. (bitterly) Is that why you’re waiting up all night?
RUTH. Yes.
ROBERT. For Andy?
RUTH. (without a trace of feeling) Somebody had got to. It’s only right for someone to meet him after he’s been gone five years.
ROBERT. (with bitter mockery) Five years! It’s a long time.
RUTH. Yes.
ROBERT. (meaningly) To wait!
RUTH. (indifferently) It’s past now.
ROBERT. Yes, it’s past. (After a pause) Have you got his two telegrams with you? (RUTH nods) Let me see them, will you? My head was so full of fever when they came I couldn’t make head or tail to them. (Hastily) But I’m feeling fine now. Let me read them again. (RUTH takes them from the bosom of her dress and hands them to him).
RUTH. Here. The first one’s on top.