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CRAIG’S WIFE
Craig (bitierly)
- I said I smashed it—into a thousand little pieces, right here on these bricks here, And then I smoked one cigarette after another, till I had your sanctum sanctorum here absolutely littered with ashes and cigarette butts. I was positively a hell of a fellow around here for about an hour last night; you should have seen me.
Mrs. Craig
- What did you do, go out of your mind or something?
Craig
- No, I was particularly clear in my mind, strange to say. You made a remark here last night, Harriet, that completely illuminated me; and illuminated you. And suddenly I saw—for the first time—everything—just as one sees an entire landscape at midnight in a flash of lightning. But, unfortunately, the lightning struck my house—and knocked it down; and I sat here all night wondering how I might build it up again.
Mrs. Craig
- What remark are you talking about?
Craig
- You said that a woman might lose her husband but not her home, if she knew how to secure it.
Mrs. Craig
- Well, hasn’t many a woman lost her husband?
Craig
- And many a man has lost his life too, Harriet, because his wife has never made a sufficiently illuminating remark. But you did make it. And that other remark—when you said there were ways of getting rid of people without driving them away from the house. (He
