It feels like death!

(Fumbles for match-box)

Here, fool, give me a light!

Light, can’t yer? Ah, what’s that, what’s that, what’s that?

Who are yer? What for are you lying there?

Get up! Get up! What makes ’e be so cold?

So clammed?

(Strikes a light)

What the,—! My wife! It be my wife!

Wife! Don’t ’e hear me? It be I, come back,