FATHER JOHN [kneels and touches him].
He is not dead.
BIDDY [pointing to NANNY].
He is dead. If it was letting on he was, he would not have let that one rob him and search him the way she did.
FATHER JOHN.
It has the appearance of death, but it is not death. He is in a trance.
PAUDEEN.
Is it Heaven and Hell he is walking at this time to be bringing back newses of the sinners in pain?
BIDDY.
I was thinking myself it might away he was, riding on white horses with the riders of the forths.