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Rutherford and Son 247
A picture of such stirring social and human im
portance that no one, except he who has reached
the stage of Martin, can escape its effect. Yet
even more significant is the inevitability of the
doom of the Rutherfords as embodied in the wis
dom of Mary, John s wife.
When her husband steals his father s money
a very small part indeed compared with what the
father had stolen from him he leaves the hate
ful place and Mary remains to face the master.
For the sake of her child she strikes a bargain with
Rutherford.
Mary. A bargain is where one person has something
to sell that another wants to buy. There s no love in it
only money money that pays for life. I ve got
something to sell that you want to buy.
Rutherford. What s that?
Mary. My son. You ve lost everything you ve had
in the world. John s gone and Richard and Janet.
They won t come back. You re alone now and getting
old, with no one to come after you. When you die
Rutherfords will be sold somebody ll buy it and give
it a new name perhaps, and no one will even remember
that you made it. That ll be the end of all your work.
Just nothing. You ve thought of that. . . . It s for
my boy. I want a chance of life for him his place
in the world. John can t give him that, because he s
made so. If I went to London and worked my hardest
I d get twenty-five shillings a week. We ve failed.
From you I can get when I want for my boy. I want
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