Joe Morgan (the father)

Joe Morgan is a burly driller, a working man of the mining town and Susan's devoted husband. He is the anxious father-to-be who has paced up and down outside for an hour waiting for the doctor, and whose face lights with “relief” at Andrew's arrival. Too nervous and too full of feeling to come inside, he waits out in the street through the whole long night — his footsteps heard beating on the pavement — trusting the doctor completely: “I know ye'll do well for us.” His tense, expectant face at dawn, and his quiet joy at Andrew's words “Both all right,” s …