JANE
Folks change, even in a few weeks, outside and in. Hard work don’t hurt anybody.
BEN
I got chilblains on my feet. The damned shoes are stiffer than they ever was.
Icebound, you said. Maybe it don’t have to be like that. Sometimes, just lately, it’s seemed to me that if folks would try, things needn’t be so bad. All of ’em try, I mean, for themselves, and for everybody else.
BEN
If I was you, I’d go out somewheres and hire a hall.
JANE
If you’d put some pork fat on those shoes to-night, your feet wouldn’t hurt so bad.