SUE--[_Aroused to angry indignation._] What kind of a man have you become--to think of such things now! Oh, I can’t believe you’re the same man who used to be my father! BARTLETT--Sue! SUE--To talk cold-bloodedly of sailing away on a long voyage when Ma’s inside--dying for all you seem to know or care! Oh, I hate you when you’re like this! You’re not the father I love! You’ve changed into someone else--hateful and cruel--and I hate him, I hate him! [_She breaks down, sobbing hysterically._] BARTLETT--[_Who has listened to her with a face suddenly stricken by fear and torturing remorse._] Sue! Ye don’t know what ye be sayin’, do ye? SUE--I do! You’re not the same to me any more--or to any of us. I’m afraid of you. And when you coldly propose to go away--now--I hate you, yes I do! And I hate those three awful men who make you act this way. I hate the schooner! I wish she and they were at the bottom of the sea! BARTLETT--[_Frenziedly--putting his hand over her mouth to stop her words._] Stop, girl! Don’t ye dare-- SUE--[_Shrinking away from him--frightenedly._] Pa! BARTLETT--[_Bewilderedly, pleading for forgiveness._] Don’t heed that, Sue--I didn’t mean--ye git me so riled--I’d not hurt ye for all the gold in the world. But don’t ye talk wrong o’ things ye can’t know on. SUE--Oh, Pa, what kind of things must they be--when you’re ashamed to tell them! BARTLETT--I ain’t ashamed. It ain’t that. On’y they be things a girl’s no call to meddle in. They be men’s business and I be man enough to carry ’em out alone. Ye’ll know all they be to know--and your Ma and Nat, too--when I come back from this vige. And the sooner I sail, the quicker I’ll be back to ye. Oh, ye’ll be glad enough then--when ye see with your own eyes! Ye’ll bless me then ’stead o’ turning agin me! [_Hesitating for a second--then somberly._] On’y now--till it’s all over and done--ye’d best keep clear o’ it. SUE--[_Passionately._] I don’t care--I don’t want to know anything about it. What I do know is that you can’t sail now. Oh, Pa, don’t you see you can’t? Haven’t you any heart at all? Can’t you see how bad Ma is? BARTLETT--It’s the sight o’ me sickens her. She’ll git better with me away from her. SUE--No. She needs you. She doesn’t want you to go. She called your name just a while ago--the only word she’s spoken since she christened the ship. Come in to her, Pa! Tell her you won’t go! BARTLETT--[_Desperately._] I got to git away from her, I tell ye, Sue! She’s been houndin’ me ever since I got back--houndin’ me with her stubborn tongue till she’s druv me mad, a’most! Ye’ve been on’y givin’ thought to her, not me. They’s my side to it, too! SUE--I’ll talk to her, Pa. She can’t realize she’s hurting you or she wouldn’t--And then everything will be just the same as it used to be again.