Rhoda replaces the lamp on the mantel.
Martha opens the kitchen door and calls in.
Martha.
Here's Uncle Abe!
Beeler.
Uncle Abe? Thought he was a goner.
Uncle Abe enters. He is an old negro, with gray hair and thin, gray beard. He is somewhat bowed, and carries a stick, but he is not decrepit. His clothes are spattered with mud. Martha enters with him; she is stirring something in a bowl, and during the following continues to do so, though more and more interruptedly and absent-mindedly.
Beeler.
Hello, Uncle Abe.
Uncle Abe.