(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.

HATCH:
Get out of my way.

ALICE:
She's ill, you cowards. It will kill her. You'll have to kill me
before you get through this door.

HATCH:
(savagely)
Well, then, if it comes to that--

(Three locomotive whistles are heard from just outside the house.
ALICE throws up her hands hysterically.)

ALICE:
Ah! At last! They've come. They've come!

HATCH:
(fiercely)
They've come! What is it? What does that mean?

(REDDY runs to window and opens the shutters.)