I wonder? That means I’ve got to hustle down to the port and get on board. Rob’s got the baby with him. [He comes hack to the boulder. Ruth keeps her face averted from him.] Gosh, I never saw a father so tied up in a kid as Rob is! He just watches every move she makes. And I don’t blame him. You both got a right to feel proud of her. She’s surely a little winner. [He glances at Ruth to see if this very obvious attempt to get back in her good graces is having any effect.] I can see the likeness to Rob standing out all over her, can’t you? But there’s no denying she’s your young one, either. There’s something about her eyes———
Ruth—[Piteously.] Oh, Andy, I’ve a headache! I don’t want to talk! Leave me alone, won’t you please?
Andrew—[Stands staring at her for a moment—then walks away saying in a hurt tone.] Everybody hereabouts seems to be on edge today. I begin to feel as if I’m not wanted around. [He stands near the path, left, kicking at the grass with the toe of his shoe. A moment later Captain Dick Scott enters, followed by Robert carrying Mary. The Captain seems scarcely to have changed at all from the jovial, booming person he was three years before. He wears a uniform similar to Andrew’s. He is puffing and breathless from his climb and mops wildly at his perspiring countenance. Robert casts a quick glance at Andrew, noticing the latter’s discomfited look, and then turns his eyes on Ruth who, at their approach,
