MUSKERRY
I could stay for a while.
MRS. CRILLY
Oh, well, if you have a better place to go—
MUSKERRY Remember what I said, Marianne. I've worked for you and yours, in season and out of season. There should be no more claims on me.
MRS. CRILLY
There are no more claims on you.
MUSKERRY
I'm willing to leave in the shop what I put into the shop.
Let Anna know that it will come to her from me. I'll write to the
Guardians to-night and I'll send in my resignation. I venture to
think that they'll know their loss.
Mrs. Crilly goes out quietly by corridor door.
MUSKERRY (by himself) And I had made this place as fit for me as the nest for the wren. Wasn't he glad to write that card, the impudent rascal, with his tongue in his cheek? I'll consider it again. I won't leave this place till it fits myself to leave it.
Christy Clarice enters by corridor door with papers.
MUSKERRY
They want me to resign from this place, Christy.
CHRISTY
You're thirty years here! Aren't you, Mister Muskerry?