Harry. [Taking the bread.] I count ’twill all be well with you now, May?
May. I warrant as ’twill, for I be right to home. But go you towards the town, Harry, for ’tis late. And God go with you, my dear, now and all time.
Harry. I’ll set off running then. For the night, ’tis upon us, May, and the snow, ’tis thick in the air.
[May turns to the stile and leans on it heavily, gazing across the field. Harry sets off quickly down the road.
ACT II.—Scene 1.
The living room in the Brownings’ cottage. The room is divided by a curtain which screens the fireside end from the draught of the principal door.
To the right of the fireplace is a door leading upstairs. Chairs are grouped round the hearth, and there is a table at which Jane Browning is ironing a dress by the light of one candle. Dorry leans against the table, watching her.
Jane. [Putting aside the iron.] There, you take and lay it on the bed upstairs, and mind you does it careful, for I’m not a-going to iron it twice.
[She lays the dress carefully across Dorry’s arms.
Dorry. Don’t the lace look nice, Gran’ma?