Rhoda.

Bursts out.

The great town, the people, the noise, and the lights—after seventeen years of life on a dead prairie, where I'd hardly heard a laugh or seen a happy face!—All the same, the prairie had me still.

Littlefield.

You don't mean you went back to the farm?

Rhoda.

I mean that the years I'd spent out there in that endless stretch of earth and sky—.

She breaks off, with a weary gesture.

There's no use going into that. You wouldn't understand.

Littlefield.