Broken! Broken! Broken!
CURTAIN
ACT III
The next morning, just before sunrise. Both door and windows are open, and a light breeze sways the curtains. Outside is a tree-shaded and vine-clad porch, with balustrade, beyond which is a tangle of flowering bushes and fruit trees in bloom. The effect is of a rich warm dawn—a sudden onset of summer weather after a bleak spring.
Beeler, with Uncle Abe looking on, is busy putting up the pictures which he has taken down in the preceding act. Martha enters from the hall.
Beeler.
To Martha.
Is Mary up?
Martha.
Yes. Wants to go out on the porch and watch the sun rise, same as she's done every Easter morning since Seth died.