(Bassett returns; with him a figure, the hands and ears bound up in rough thick bandages, and on his forehead a burning red T. He looks at them, with reason hardly awake.)

Amos

(going to him):

Seth—Seth, boy.

(Seth moves his lips, but makes no sound. They look at him in horror.)

Bridget:

Father—father.

Cromwell:

There—no—no.

(To Bassett.)