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Setting up the new scene:
Jamison knocks at the door. Laura hides the scarab in her pocket. Jamison is disconcerted to see Dirk--I thought you would be alone. Dirk was just helping me with something I needed, Laura explains (tell your son what, Laura, I dare ya!). Jamison orders Dirk to go. Laura wonders how her son could speak to Dirk that way. Quentin says servants must know their proper place, says Jamison. Laura is angry to hear this--Quentin is the person trying to hurt me, she tells him, but Jamison doesn't believe her.[/spoiler]
Wrapping up Scene 103:
Justin's room - I had to come back to his room, Bramwell, says Melanie--he loved me, even if I wasn't his real daughter--once I wanted to find out who my real parents were, he told me not to try--wasn't it enough to have him and Mama?--it was...it was...the boys, they resent me, as they do you. Gently Bramwell urges, you must get away from Collinwood now. She looks at him, astounded--get away? she repeats Your father must have left you enough money, says Bramwell. Where would I go? she asks. Somewhere, says Bramwell, anywhere you can have a life of your own--wouldn't you like that?--away from this house, with all its superstitions and fears? I couldn't leave, she insists. Why? he asks. I couldn't, she says, anymore than the rest of them--don't ever ask me about it again. Bramwell looks at her sadly.[/spoiler]