[_There is a moment’s pause and Jane enters door right. Hannah follows to door and looks on eagerly._ JANE I sent for you, Ben. BEN I won’t budge. JANE (_wearily_) Must we go through all this again? BEN I ain’t going to move out of this chair to-day. You do what you damned please. JANE I am sorry, but you must. BEN Send for Jim Jay, have me locked up, do as you please. Oh, I’ve said it before, but this time I mean it. JANE And you won’t come? BEN No. JANE Then I’ll do the best I can alone. [_She crosses up to wall closet and opens it and selects a large bottle, and turns. Ben rises quickly._ BEN What do you want of that? JANE It’s one of the horses. I don’t know what’s the matter with her. She’s down in her stall, just breathing. She won’t pay any attention to me. BEN Old Nellie? JANE Yes. BEN What you got? (_He steps to her and takes the bottle from her and looks at it_) That stuff’s no good. Here! (_He steps to cabinet and selects another bottle_) If you hadn’t spent five minutes stalling around, I might have had a better chance. [_He exits quickly at left._ HANNAH I allers said ’twas easier to catch flies with honey than ’twas with vinegar. HENRY What’s Ben know about horses? JANE A lot. HENRY I didn’t know that. JANE Neither did Ben, six weeks ago. [_She exits._ HENRY Mother was like that, about animals. I guess Ben sort of takes after her. EMMA (_shocked_) Ben! Like your mother! HANNAH Of course he is. He’s the “spit and image of her.” [_She exits._ NETTIE She made him go! It wouldn’t surprise me a mite if she’d pushed that old horse over herself. [_Jane enters._ JANE He wouldn’t let me in the barn. (_For the first time in the play, she laughs lightly_) Well--(_She looks about at them_) we have quite a family gathering here this afternoon. I am wondering if there is any--special reason for it? HENRY I wanted to talk with yer for just a minute, Jane. SADIE So do I. JANE Anybody else? [_She looks about._ ELLA I do. NETTIE So do I. JANE I’ve a lot to do; suppose I answer you all at once. I’m sorry, but I won’t lend you any money. HENRY Of course, I didn’t think they’d call that note of mine; it’s only five hundred, and you could just endorse it. JANE No! SADIE I was going to ask you---- JANE No! ELLA I got a chance to be independent, Jane, and----No. I haven’t any money. I won’t have before the first of the month. EMMA No money! HENRY I bet you’re worth as much to-day as you was the day mother died. JANE