ACT THREE
SCENE TWO
Scene—Same as Act One, Scene One—A section of country highway. The sly to the east is already alight with bright color and a thin, quivering line of flame is spreading slowly along the horizon rim of the dark hills. The roadside, however, is still steeped in the greyness of the dawn, shadowy and vague. The field in the foreground has a wild uncultivated appearance as if it had been allowed to remain fallow the preceeding summer. Parts of the snake-fence in the rear have been broken down. The apple tree is leafless and seems dead.
Robert staggers weakly in from the left. He stumbles into the ditch and lies there for a moment; then crawls with a great effort to the top of the bank where he can see the sun rise, and collapses weakly. Ruth and Andrew come hurriedly along the road from the left.
Andrew—[Stopping and looking about him.] There he is! I knew it! I knew we’d find him here.
Robert—[Trying to raise himself to a sitting
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