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NATHANIEL
Perhaps, but sometimes one's heart speaks in a delirium.
HANK
He acts like his back's broke.
NATHANIEL
My G.o.d--his back!
[_Touches the boy's back._
_Jonathan winces with pain._
JONATHAN
My back's broken, Hank.
HANK
Listen, he's saying my name. We wuz pals, sure nuff.
JONATHAN
My back's broken, Hank.
_Curtain._
ACT II
Six years have elapsed since Act I as years elapse in a boy's imaginings.
Throughout this act the characters are disclosed without reason as in a dream; and the movement of the act represents four terrors of a delirium--anxious effort to make oneself known, a feeling of fetters, climbing and a sudden fall.
JONATHAN BUILDS A FEAR
[_Before the curtain rises the voices of Jonathan, Hank, Nathaniel and John are heard, m.u.f.fled and far away._
HANK
He fell on the rocks out there.
NATHANIEL
Put him over here.
JOHN
What was he doing?
HANK
He was--
NATHANIEL
This is no time for questions, John. Call a doctor.
JONATHAN
Good-bye.... Jonathan.
JOHN
We'd better take him in the house.
JONATHAN
My mother was the best woman--
NATHANIEL
He'd better stay here until the doctor comes.
JONATHAN
All on a summer's day--
HANK
He's out of his head, ain't he?
NATHANIEL
Perhaps, but sometimes one's heart speaks in a delirium.
HANK
He acts like his back's broke.
NATHANIEL
