Summary

Act 3 begins the next morning, back in the kitchen of the farmhouse. The lamb is in its fence, and the door has been finished by Weston who is clean for once and folding laundry as coffee brews. It seems he has undergone a transformation. Weston is talking to the lamb, assuring it there are things much worse than maggots, and he launches into a story about how he was once castrating lambs when an eagle came swooping down, wanting the testes of the lambs. Weston realizes this and throws the testes onto the roof for the eagle to take.

Wesley comes into the kitchen during the story, his face and hands bloody, and he wants his father to continue the story. But Wesley already knows how the story ends, so Weston will not finish it. Weston asks about the blood, and Wesley informs him he...