Norah.
[With a flash of spirit.] And acknowledge myself beaten? [There is a short pause.] You don’t know what I went through before I came here. I tried to get another position as lady’s companion. I answered advertisements. I hung about the agent’s offices.... Two people offered to take me without a salary. One woman suggested ten shillings a week and my lunch. She expected me to find myself a room, clothes, breakfast and supper on ten shillings a week. That settled me. I wrote to Eddie and said I was coming. When I’d paid my fare I had eight pounds in the world. That’s the result of ten years’ work as lady’s companion. When he came to meet me at the station at Dyer....
Hornby.
Don’t call it a station, call it a depôt.
Norah.
My whole fortune consisted of seven dollars and thirty-five cents.
[Marsh comes in and gives Hornby a glance.]
Marsh.
What about that wood you were splitting, Reg? You’d better be getting on with it.
Hornby.