You're afraid to even steal from men. You rob WOMEN when
they're alone--at night.
(Holds up locket.)
Try to take that from me!
VOICE:
(calling)
Alice--Alice!
ALICE:
Mother! Oh, I forgot, I forgot.
(The burglars rise and move toward her menacingly.)
Please, please keep quiet. For God's sake, don't--let--her--know!
VOICE:
Alice, what's wrong? Who are you talking to?
(ALICE runs to the curtains, with one hand held out to the
burglars, entreating silence.)
ALICE:
I'm--I'm talking to James, the coachman. One of the horses is ill.
Don't come down, mother. Don't come down. Go back to bed. He's
going now, right away. He came for some medicine. It's all right.
Good night, mother.
VOICE:
Can't I help?
ALICE:
(Vehemently)
No, no. Good night, mother.
VOICE:
Good night.
HATCH:
(fiercely, to HARRY)
That's enough of this! We can't leave here with the whole house
awake. And there's a coachman, too. She'll wake him next. He'll
have the whole damned village after us.
(To ALICE)
That woman upstairs and you have got to have your tongues stopped.
ALICE:
(standing in front of curtains)
You try to go near that woman! She's ill, she's feeble, she's my--
mother! You dare to touch her.
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