Yes——
Nancy
I was proud that morning as I saw you stand with your ax on that big log—anything my boy starts to do—he does——
[Pauses.]
Your father taught you to use the ax and——
[Turns and looks at Abe.]
Your father's a good man, my son—kind-hearted and true and everybody likes him. They made him road supervisor of his township in Kentucky once. If he could read and write he would have gone to the legislature——
[Tom enters from the cabin with the rock and Bible, he crosses to Nancy, and Abe takes the rock and puts it under her feet—Sarah kneels and helps him. Nancy's hand drops on the bench. Tom picks up her hand, and the chill of it worries him.]
[Abe and Sarah rise.]
Nancy