MATTHEW. To life! The life you send me to is not worth having.
GUY. Perhaps that's why I send you back to it.
MATTHEW. No. I will——
RUTH. You will think of my mother.
MARTIN. Go, Butterworth. There is still work for you to do.
MATTHEW. To take my life from him!
RUTH. He will not taunt you with it, father.
GUY (going impatiently to door and opening it). Go, man, before I change my mind, and thank your God it's you I choose to take my message out—the message that Guy Barlow has the power to send men to the gallows or the loom. For you, the loom. For him, the gallows. Go.
(Ruth goes with Matthew to door.)
RUTH. Go, father.