Read Act III.
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Act III
It is now 2 A.M., hours later in the middle of the night. Mother is outside on a rocking chair, waiting for Chris to come home. Jim appears and asks about the fight. He tells her the truth about Keller and Steve--he figured it out a long time ago. Mother says she thought that Chris sort of knew, and she did not realize it would be such a shock to him. Jim says that Chris would never know how to live with a thing like that. But he will come back, because every man has to compromise his ideals sometime. Jim points out that he returned to his wife after having left her to do medical research, because he is a good husband; likewise, Chris...
