Ellen
He's dropped his work. He's dropped everything. I'm losing him, Ruth. I'll die if I lose him.
Ruth
Perhaps, perhaps if you went back to the lodge, just the two of you.
Ellen
No, he hates it now, everything about it. He never wants to set foot there again. And he doesn't want to go back to Boston. If I only knew what he was thinking. You've always helped me, Ruth. Help me now.
Ruth
A little time, Ellen, you'll see. He's had a great loss. There's a great emptiness in his life. If he only, if he only had a child of his own.
