Tess : Now will you tell me something, Mr. Dunson? Dunson : What? Tess : Why do you want to kill him? Dunson : Because he's a thief. Tess : Do you think he thinks that? Dunson : He should. I picked him up in the brush leading a cow. That's fourteen years ago. Taught him all I could. He knew what I was planning. Saw what I was building. He knew that someday, it'd all be his. His land, his cattle, the whole thing. Even talked of a woman as men will talk. A strong woman who could bear him sons, a woman like you. Tess : Why did you want him to have a son? Dunson : Because I built something. Built it with my own hands. And I can't live forever and live to see it grow. I thought I had a son. But I haven't and I want one. Tess : I'm sorry for you, Mr. Dunson. Very sorry.

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