MATT
Ay—there before us—if we like.
ELLEN
Surely we like.
MATT I was always shy of crowds. I'm simple, after all, Ellen, and have no thought beyond the land.
ELLEN You said that house and land could not keep you. You told him you were going as your brothers went.
MATT And I felt I was going. I frightened him. He'll be glad to see me back. It will be long before he treats me that way again.
ELLEN (suddenly) Matt!
MATT
What is it, Ellen?
ELLEN I don't know—I was upset—thinking of the quarrel (putting her hands on his shoulders) My poor Matt. It was about me you quarrelled.
MATT
Ay, he spoke against you. I couldn't put up with that.
ELLEN
He does not know your high spirit. He does not know your strength.