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Prologue

Fred
It’s nothing against a woman to like babies. Carl’s wife certainly likes hers. She’s made him a nice home, too. He didn’t have to buy hardly anything in the way of furniture; her grandmother gave her a bedroom suit and she bought some herself with money she saved while she was working at Berger’s.
Edna
She must be a good deal like myself. I could almost start housekeeping with the things I’ve got. I suppose I’m silly and old-fashioned, but I always thought a girl should bring her husband something besides herself. I even wouldn’t mind going on working after I was married, till my husband established himself.
Fred
The girl I marry won’t never have to work. I don’t believe God ever meant for a woman to endure a life of druggery.
Edna
Oh, Mr.Mr. Stevens, if only all men felt the same way!
Edna
It’s been a shorter trip than usual, for some reason.
Fred
Trying to peer out the window.
I wonder where we’re at now?
Edna
Also peering.
Pretty near Yonkers, I guess.
Fred
If we was on the other side we could see the Hudson River.
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