The Uncle. You know quite well that your father-in-law likes to alarm us needlessly.
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Setting for The Intruder composed of plastic units designed by Sam Hume.
The Grandfather. I don't look at these things as you others do.
The Uncle. You ought to rely on us, then, who can see. She looked very well this afternoon. She is sleeping quietly now; and we are not going to spoil, without any reason, the first comfortable evening that luck has thrown in our way.... It seems to me we have a perfect right to be easy, and even to laugh a little, this evening, without apprehension.
The Father. That's true; this is the first time I have felt at home with my family since this terrible confinement.
The Uncle. When once illness has come into a house, it is as though a stranger had forced himself into the family circle.
The Father. And then you understood, too, that you should count on no one outside the family.