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    I-fl-40 REV 5/18 ADAM Reckon that's so, Milly, but... MILLY (interrupts, fiercely) All the way up in the wagon you let me talk -- make a fool of myself ?╟÷ talking about you and me. You should have stopped me! ADAM Mebbe I should have ?╟÷ but it sounded real purty. Besides, if I told you beforehand you might not have married me. (earnestly) ?? I wanted you to marry me, Milly. I wantft^it real bad. (bitterly) Sure you did, because I'm young and strong, and you know there's lots of work in me. I guess that's partly true. It's a hard life out here in the forest and wilderness. There's trees waiting to be felled ?╟÷ land waiting to be plowed and fenced ?╟÷ stock to be fed. A man needs a wife who can work alongside him. (gently) Of course when she's got eyes bluer'n corn flowers ?╟÷ and hair the color of wheat in the sunshine, he counts himself real fortunate. (They look at each other. There is a moment's silence, them MILLY ; . speaks) (ADAM breathes a sigh of relief; starts turning down the quilt again) ?╟≤ , /a ^ ^ i ?╟÷ But I'm not sleeping alongside you. vjffiV ? MILLY (ADAM looks at her, sets his jaw, hn vno p-l- a 1 Ire r\n4- nf 4-Vi/a vr\r\m / r. /r i C- realizing the brothers are downstairs. He doesn't want to face them. He pauses. ADAM I'll just give her a little time to get out of her duds.