What? I has none? Could I ha' strangled it with my hands?… I strangled my baby with these hands!!!
THE CONSTABLE
You're possessed! What's wrong with you?
ROSE
My mind's clear. I'm not possessed. I woke up clear in my mind, so clear…. [Coldly, mildly, but with cruel firmness.] It was not to live! I didn't want it to live! I didn't want it to suffer my agonies! It was to stay where it belonged.
AUGUST
Rose, think! Don't torment yourself! You don't know what you're sayin' here! You'll bring down misery on us all.
ROSE
You don't know nothin' … that's it … You don't see nothin'. You was all blind together with your eyes open. He can go an' look behind the great willow … by the alder-trees … behind the parson's field … by the pool … there he can see the wee thing….