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Good-bye.
[_Susan goes out._
LEt.i.tIA
She hates to go. She's never seen anyone just like you: and I have only seen one.
NATHANIEL
Who's Jonathan?
LEt.i.tIA
He's the one.... He's Emily's boy.
NATHANIEL
You mean Emily--
LEt.i.tIA
No, no, my dear. Emily was married, left the stage. She wasn't happy. The boy was her only comfort.
NATHANIEL
He's my nephew. Why, I'm Uncle Nathaniel. Oh, Aunt Letty, I'm getting to be an old man!
LEt.i.tIA
Nathaniel, Jonathan doesn't know about his mother. I sent Susan away because I didn't want her to a.s.sociate these things with Jonathan's mother.
NATHANIEL
My G.o.d, Emily didn't do anything wrong.
LEt.i.tIA
Well, she was an actress.
NATHANIEL
And a good one, too.
LEt.i.tIA
Yes, yes, dear. All that has been talked over many times, but John is the head of the family and he doesn't approve of the stage.
NATHANIEL
So! John is still himself.
LEt.i.tIA
John is austere, Nathaniel. He is a Clay through and through and he holds to the traditions of the family.
NATHANIEL
I remember the traditions, Aunt Let.i.tia.
LEt.i.tIA
I never oppose John. He feels that he is right. But it _is_ very hard sometimes to live up to his rules.
NATHANIEL
Has he rules?
LEt.i.tIA
Well, he has ideas, dear--much like your father's. We might call them rules.
NATHANIEL
Where is Emily?
LEt.i.tIA
Two years ago, Nathaniel.
[_There is a moment's silence._
NATHANIEL
Did she ever go back to the stage?
LEt.i.tIA
No. John forbade it.
NATHANIEL
And John is still forbidding.
LEt.i.tIA
John is the head of the family.
NATHANIEL
