Oh, Hiram, it's not going to be so bad as that. Don't let him set you against your own flesh and blood. Just let me manage awhile. He needs to get stirred up about something—get his mind off this. I wish I hadn't stopped those letters he was getting from Reba Sloan when she went off to school two years ago.
Warner
But you said you'd rather see him dead than married to Sloan's girl.
Mrs. W.
I meant it, too! But seeing your child dead is not so bad as seeing him crazy—and if Reba can save him——
Warner
How in thunder——
Mrs. W.
She's a taking girl, Hiram—since she got back. If Philo gets his mind fixed on her, she'll soon have him forgettin' this. Why,—you remember for three months before we were married you couldn't think o' nothing but me.