ADELAIDE
Come on! Come on! We'll eat this orange together now.
[She walks in the child's direction, takes him by the hand, holds up the orange temptingly, and both go, now quite at one, into the next room.
MRS. WOLFF
[Following the child with her eyes.] No, that boy, I could just sit an' look at him. I don't know, when I see a boy like that … [She takes up a corner of her apron and wipes her eyes.] … I feel as if I had to howl right out.
FLEISCHER
Did you have a boy like that once?
MRS. WOLFF
That I had. But what's the use o' all that. You can't make people come back to life. You see—things like that—that's life….
A pause.