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Well, do you remember my quarrel with Charlie Fisher?
MRS. EVERITT
Yes. Why?
EVERITT
Because, you poor child, that letter was written to him.
MRS. EVERITT
To him!
EVERITT
Yes, Charlie Fisher. I found that he was going with Annie Pratt and I had it out with him one day in the barn. I told him if he didn't quit his foolishness I'd tell his people. We nearly came to blows--he was drinking too much, too--and I found that letter on the floor afterwards. I meant to burn it up, but I forgot it. And you thought I was the Charlie!
MRS. EVERITT
G.o.d forgive me!
EVERITT
But why on earth didn't you come right out with it?
MRS. EVERITT
Oh! You can't realize how crushed I felt. I wanted only to run away, like a wounded animal.... And then I couldn't bear to quarrel, for the sake of Walter. So it's been festering in me all this time.
EVERITT
So that's it. Well, thank heaven! (_He starts to embrace her_)
MRS. EVERITT
But that letter you picked up so quickly to-night--was that from somebody else?
EVERITT
Lord, I'd almost forgotten it.
MRS. EVERITT
There! And I was almost happy!
EVERITT
For goodness sake, read it!
MRS. EVERITT
From your bank.... I don't understand it.
EVERITT
It's simple enough. They won't make me another loan.
MRS. EVERITT
Well?
EVERITT
Between the unions and the new inspection--well, I can't finish the Broadway contract on time, and I'm done.
MRS. EVERITT
Done?
EVERITT
Done. Smashed. I might save ten thousand dollars, that's all. My life's work....
MRS. EVERITT
You mean money?
EVERITT
I mean the lack of it.
MRS. EVERITT
Is that all? Thank heaven!
EVERITT
All! But do you realize it means giving up the house, and beginning all over again on ten thousand dollars?
MRS. EVERITT
I don't care. I was never happy there anyhow. And now I could be happy doing my own work in a tenement.
EVERITT
I think I could be happy as a carpenter again by the day. But the children. It's going to be hard for them. Walter's architecture.
WALTER
