Well, _I_ was here before. [_A laugh._] And the old man--[_Nodding toward the CAPTAIN_] he lived here for twenty-seven years. Lord, the things that happened _here_. There’ve been dead ones carried through _that_ door. [_Pointing to the outside door._] Lord--the ones _I’ve_ carried. I carried in Bill Collins, and Lou Harvey and--huh! ’sall over now. You ain’t seen no _wrecks_. Don’t ever think you have. I was here the night the Jennie Snow was out there. [_Pointing to the sea._] There was a _wreck_. We got the boat that stood here [_Again shaking the frame_] down that bank. [_Goes to the door and looks out._] Lord, how’d we ever do it? The sand has put this place on the blink all right. And then when it gets too God-forsaken for a life-savin’ station, a lady takes it for a summer residence--and then spends the winter. She’s cheerful one. TONY A woman--she makes things pretty. This not like a place where a woman live. On the floor there is nothing--on the wall there is nothing. Things--[_Trying to express it with his hands_] do not hang on other things. BRADFORD [_Imitating TONY’S gesture._] No--things do not hang on other things. In my opinion the woman’s crazy--sittin’ over there on the sand--[_A gesture towards the dunes_] what’s she _lookin’_ at? There ain’t nothin’ to _see_. And I know the woman that works for her’s crazy--Allie Mayo. She’s a Provincetown girl. She was all right once, but-- [_MRS. PATRICK comes in from the hall at the right. She is a “city woman,” a sophisticated person who has been caught into something as unlike the old life as the dunes are unlike a meadow. At the moment she is excited and angry._ MRS. PATRICK You have no right here. This isn’t the life-saving station any more. Just because it used to be--I don’t see why you should think--This is my house! And--I want my house to myself! CAPTAIN [_Putting his head through the door. One arm of the man he is working with is raised, and the hand reaches through the doorway._] Well I must say, lady, I would think that any house could be a life-saving station when the sea had sent a man to it. MRS. PATRICK [_Who has turned away so she cannot see the hand._] I don’t want him here! I--[_Defiant, yet choking_] I must have my house to myself! CAPTAIN You’ll get your house to yourself when I’ve made up my mind there’s no more life in this man. A good many lives have been saved in this house, Mrs. Patrick--I believe that’s your name--and if there’s any chance of bringing one more back from the dead, the fact that you own the house ain’t goin’ to make a damn bit of difference to me! MRS. PATRICK [_In a thin wild way._] I must have my house to myself. CAPTAIN Hell with such a woman! [_Moves the man he is working with and slams the door shut._