RUTH (holding him back as he advances towards Guy). Father! Guy has the power of life or death. You could be hanged for what you've done to-night.
GUY. And dead men burn no factories, Butterworth.
MATTHEW. Dead men can speak, speak from their graves back to the living, Mr. Guy.
GUY. I have told you you are not to die. You're going to live, because I will it so.
MATTHEW. And ask me to submit?
GUY. I don't remember asking. I know you will submit.
MATTHEW. Never.
GUY. The door is there. Get out of it and go. You'll not be stayed. Go out and show yourself alive. Go out and prove to all the valley that Guy Barlow has the power of life or death.
MATTHEW. So that's the use you have for me. To show myself a coward, who——
GUY. To show yourself sent back to life by me.