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CRAIG’S WIFE
- and then you have to go out visiting them. (She crosses below the table to the piano) I felt in my bones up there in Albany that something ’ud happen while I was away; that was the reason I didn’t stay up there any longer than I absolutely had to. I knew as soon as ever my back was turned you’d be out with your friends again.
- [He looks at her, under his brows; and there is a pause.
Craig
- And what has your back being turned got to do with my visiting my friends?
Mrs. Craig
- Never mind what it has to do with it; only you wouldn’t have been visiting them if I’d been here.
Craig
- How would you have stopped me?
Mrs. Craig
- I’d have stopped you all right, one way or another.
Craig
- What would you have done—locked the door on me?
Mrs. Craig
- It wouldn’t have been necessary to lock the door on you. (Turning and looking at him directly) You haven’t been visiting them in the last eighteen months, have you?
Craig
- No, I haven’t.
Mrs. Craig
- And they haven’t been visiting you, either?
Craig
- No, they haven’t.
Mrs. Craig (turning away)
- Well—
