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Midnight - Hoffman comes downstairs at Collinwood, locks the front doors, turns out the light. She enters the party-strewn living room and begins cleaning up. Roger comes out from between the drapes, touches her arm and asks, what's the secret? Secret? repeats Hoffman. Something has happened in this house, says Roger, since you returned from your vacation, something has happened to you. Nothing has happened, she says. You can lie to others, but not to me, Hoffman, he says. You're imagining things, she says. No I'm not, he insists--something has happened in this house, to you--I don't like secrets, unless I'm included in them--and I will be--I will be! She again says, I don't know what you're talking about. Fear, says Roger, I think--fear! You must excuse me, she says, I have a busy day tomorrow. She leaves.[/spoiler]
Naomi drinks in her room. She hides the bottle when Abigail knocks at her door. Her sister in law comes in and begins to blather heatedly, hatefully, on and on about the cat, the devil, and Naomi's drinking. Naomi suggests Abigail must be quite an authority on the devil by this time and SHE drinks as a tonic for her shattered nerves.[/spoiler]