CARMODY (irritated). Ara, don't be talkin'! That's no secret at all with the whole town watchin' Eileen and you spoonin' together from the time you was kids.NICHOLLS (vindictively). Well, the whole town is liable to find out—— He checks himself.)
CARMODY (too absorbed in his own troubles to notice this threat). To hell with the town and all in it!I've troubles enough of my own. So he told you he'd send Eileen away to the hospital? I've half a mind not to let him—and let him try to make me! (With afrown.) But Eileen herself says she's wantin' to go,now. (Angrily.) It's all that divil's notion he put in her head that the children'd be catchin' her sickness that makes her willin' to go.