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My aunt died of a broken heart.
JONATHAN
A broken heart?
JOHN
Because Jonathan ran away.
[_Jonathan buries his face in his arms._
There! Don't cry for someone you've never seen.... Here, here, take this--
[_He presses a coin into Jonathan's hand and goes out._
_Jonathan looks at the coin, then after John, and seems to close his heart.
He crosses to the sleeping Hank._
JONATHAN
Here, Hank.
HANK (_taking the coin_)
What'd he say?
JONATHAN
He didn't know me.
HANK
I guess you're not going back home now!
JONATHAN
No, I haven't any home.
HANK
Then quit your snifflin' an' go on over to that house.
JONATHAN
All right, Hank.
[_Hank curls up and goes to sleep again._
_Jonathan crosses to the cottage and finally summons the courage to knock on the door. As he does so the lights within grow bright and disclose a lovely little room with a beautiful piano in the centre. In a moment a young woman appears and opens the doors. It is Susan Sample. She is charmingly older; but she is dressed almost as she was in the old lumber room._
JONATHAN
Please, Miss--why--
SUSAN
What do you want?
JONATHAN
I--don't you know me?
SUSAN
No, I don't know you, little boy. What do you want?
JONATHAN
I--don't you really know me?
SUSAN
I've never seen you before.
JONATHAN
I know you.... You're Susan Sample.
SUSAN
Who told you?
JONATHAN
I'm-- (_He becomes conscious of his back_) Why Jonathan told me.
SUSAN
Have you seen Jonathan?
JONATHAN
Yes.
SUSAN
Where is he?
JONATHAN
