Eventually a baby is born from her relationship with Eben, which his father Ephraim Cabot believes to be his own.
This works' title entities are described as "like exhausted women resting their sagging breasts and hands and hairs on its roof, and when it rains their tears trickle down monotonously and rot on the shingles."  Throughout the action of the play two of the characters frequently discuss the prospect of going to the gold fields of California, and leave the farm at the end of the first act. The main action of the play centers around the half brother of those two men, Eben, and his adulterous relationship with his stepmother, the young Abbie. Eventually a baby is born from her relationship with Eben, which his father Ephraim Cabot believes to be his own. Abbie eventually murders the baby, causing Eben to turn her over to the sheriff. FTP identify this Eugene O'Neill tragedy originally published in 1924.
This works' title entities are described as "like exhausted women resting their sagging breasts and hands and hairs on its roof, and when it rains their tears trickle down monotonously and rot on the shingles."  
{Desire Under} the {Elms}