NANNY [outside].
It was that, my poor child, and my one son only. Show mercy to him now and he after leaving gaol this morning.
MARTIN [to ANDREW].
I was trying to remember it—when he spoke that word it all came back to me. I saw a bright many-changing figure; it was holding up a shining vessel [holds up arms]; then the vessel fell and was broken with a great crash; then I saw the unicorns trampling it. They were breaking the world to pieces—when I saw the cracks coming I shouted for joy! And I heard the command ‘Destroy, destroy, destruction is the life-giver! destroy!’
ANDREW.
What will we do with him? He was thinking to rob you of your gold.
MARTIN.
How could I forget it or mistake it? It has all come upon me now; the reasons of it all, like a flood, like a flooded river.
JOHNNY [weeping].
It was the hunger brought me in and the drouth.