(stroking her hair fondly)
Have courage, sweetheart; do not cry. Everything will turn out for the best in the end.
MARY
You have the courage for both of us. Every blow that has fallen, every door that has been shut between me and an honest livelihood, every time that clean hands have been drawn away from mine and respectable faces turned aside as I came near them, I’ve come to you for comfort and love and hope—and have found them.
DICK
My brave little woman! My brave little woman! How you’ve suffered in silence! But brighter days are before us.
MARY
(pensively)
Brighter days. I try to see them through the clouds that stand like a dark wall between us.
DICK