Alice
Really? And do things?
Mrs. Everitt
Charles!
Everitt
This is the most extraordinary night I ever heard of. Here I was, feeling like a condemned criminal because I'd lost my business, afraid to tell Mary and you children, and now you all seem positively glad of it. I expected all kinds of trouble, and all at once.... What the deuce is it?
Harold
Rain—rain.... Mother, why can't the brook come back to the same little girl?