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    • PETER DALE, Plant-Breeder .
    • MANA, [Footnote: 1Kb ] Pronouned: Mah-na. His Daughter .
    • MARK FREEMAN, His Assistant .
    • MRS. HENSHAWE.
    • JULIAN, Her Son: of the State Senate .
    • ROSALIE, a Child .
    • REV. IGNATIUS SPOFFORD.
    • PROF. RAEBURN, Biologist: of the State University .
    • WESTGATE, Lumberman .
    • MISS WINCH, Reporter .
    • A CHAUFFEUR.
    • A TRAINED NURSE.
    • Mexican and Japanese Laborers.
SCENES
  • ACT I. — Peter Dale's garden, in northern California; afternoon .
  • ACT II. — Among the cypresses, on the Pacific coast; evening and night .
  • ACT III. — The garden again; late afternoon of the next day .

ACT FIRST

The garden of PETER DALE, in northern California. On the right is visible the end of a greenhouse, beside which vines are growing. Through the open door are seen tables, reaching beyond sight; on these are low boxes filed with seedling plants. Around the corner of the greenhouse, up scene, a path leads to a gate, beyond view, and a roadway, also unseen but indicated by its border of tall eucalyptus trees, in the right background .

The groundplan of the scene is filled with beds of bright flowers — poppies, amaryllis, and other varied species — through which a broad central path leads back to another which crosses it in the middleground; this is bordered behind by tall cactus plants in bloom, and here the central path ends. Beyond the cactus bed, an orchard of young fruit trees stretches green toward dull-golden mountains and bright azure sky. The immediate foreground is a wide path which divides, on the left, around the circle of a pool, with lilies. Beside the broad, cement margin of this pool, a curved bench stands beneath ilex trees. Behind this bench the path leads off, left .

It is early afternoon. Shimmering sunlight intensifies the colors of the flowers. Midway the central path, the still figure of PETER DALE stands contemplating. He is dressed in a gray swallow-tail suit of antedated style. Under a wide palm-leaf, Chinese hat, pointed at the crown, his short, white hair accentuates the ruddy sunburn of his shaven face and fine-cut features. With both hands folded over a large blank-book, he gazes, in quizzical quiet, at a flower beside him. From nearby, on the right, the thin, sweet voice of a child is heard lilting to an improvised melody:

THE CHILD'S VOICE

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PETER turns toward the sound, with a pensive smile,over which comes a shade of sadness; then, turning again to the flower, he takes from, his pocket a piece of white string, squats on one heel in the path, and ties the string to the plant's stalk, jotting a note in his book with a pencil .
THE CHILD'S VOICE

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Around the corner of the greenhouse, the tall, spare form of MARK FREEMAN comes slowly striding. He is a young man, about twenty-five, powerful m build, sinewy like a mountaineer. His strong face is sun-tanned; his brown arms are bare below the rolled sleeves of a red shirt thrust into hand trousers. On his shoulders — with one hand clutching a starfish, the other MARK'S collar — a little girl rides pig-a-back, her bright curls fluttering close to his tumbled, dark hair. Arriving in the foreground , MARK swings the child down upon her feet by the greenhouse door, against which he places her empty hand. Feeling the door-frame and the vines with a quick touch, she stands a moment, groping, while MARK gazes down at her. Then confidently she walks, with outstretched hands — MARK following her — to the edge of the pool, where she sits and plays with the starfish. By her actions it is evident that she cannot see . PETER rises, and the two men look at the child with tenderness .
PETER

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MARK

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ROSALIE
Without looking up

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PETER

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[PETER leads MARK toward the flower, and points to the white string . MARK ejaculates with pleasure
MARK

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PETER

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MARK

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At the pool , ROSALIE dips the starfish in and out of the water, lilting to her rhythmic motion
ROSALIE

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PETER
Examining the poppy with MARK.]

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ROSALIE
Haltingly

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Calling

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MARK

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ROSALIE

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PETER

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ROSALIE

Note: Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 52 chars.

PETER

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He sits on the bench . ROSALIE jumps to her feet and reaches toward him
ROSALIE

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PETER

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Taking her outstretched hands , PETER nestles her to him
ROSALIE
Cosily

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PETER

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[ROSALIE nods

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ROSALIE

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PETER

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ROSALIE

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PETER

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ROSALIE

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PETER

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ROSALIE

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PETER

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ROSALIE

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PETER

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[PETER rises and takes ROSALIE by the hand
ROSALIE

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PETER

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He begins to lead her up the central path

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ROSALIE

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PETER

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ROSALIE
Pulling loose from PETER'S hand

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She moves lightly ahead of him, with outstretched hands

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Along the middleground path, she goes off, left, through the flowers, humming to herself:

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PETER
Following the child, looks back with a quaint smile

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MARK

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Pausing , PETER looks back at MARK, with kindly scrutiny
PETER

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MARK

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PETER

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MARK

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PETER

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MARK

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PETER

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MARK

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars.

PETER
Looking again in MARK'S face, with friendly gaze

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MARK

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They clasp hands
PETER

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MARK

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[PETER turns away, left. Glancing affectionately toward MARK, and shaking his own left hand playfully with his right, he goes off . MARK, taking a pronged iron from beside the greenhouse, begins to follow him, but stops at the head of the central path to look at a bed of seedling cacti. Here, with his back turned, he stoops down and begins to uproot the seedlings with the iron prong. From the right is heard the click and closing of a gate, and soon, along the middleground path, there enters a man of about thirty-five, simply dressed in gray, with a straw Panama hat. He is quiet-mannered, and wears glasses, behind which his eyes twinkle pleasantly. He is about to pass MARK, but looking closer, touches him on the shoulder
THE MAN

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Looking up , MARK gets to his feet with a smile
MARK

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RAEBURN
Shaking MARK'S hand

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MARK

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RAEBURN

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MARK

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RAEBURN

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 19 words in 3 sentences using 106 chars.

RAEBURN

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MARK

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RAEBURN

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MARK

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RAEBURN

Note: Contains 41 words in 5 sentences using 201 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

RAEBURN

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars.

MARK

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RAEBURN

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MARK

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RAEBURN

Note: Contains 34 words in 2 sentences using 177 chars.

MARK

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RAEBURN

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MARK
Thoughtfully

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RAEBURN

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MARK
Touching with his prong the starfish on the ground, murmurs aloud

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RAEBURN
More to himself than to MARK.]

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MARK

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars.

RAEBURN

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MARK

Note: Contains 66 words in 8 sentences using 340 chars.

RAEBURN

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Along the middleground path, left , ROSALIE enters, and passes — groping with outreached hands — behind the greenhouse . RAEBURN watches her curiously, and turns to MARK.]

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MARK

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RAEBURN
With a gesture

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MARK

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RAEBURN

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MARK

Note: Contains 18 words in 3 sentences using 89 chars.

RAEBURN

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

RAEBURN

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MARK

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

RAEBURN

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By the greenhouse path enter two men. One, of middle height, vividly handsome, restless in gesture, of about forty years, is dressed elegantly in riding clothes and carries a short whip. The other, stocky, sun-burned, about fifty, is dressed plainly and smokes a cigar. The older man, walking close in front of the younger and unconsciously retarding his steps, is speaking earnestly, in a downright, uneducated manner
THE STOCKY MAN

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THE OTHER
Politely

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THE STOCKY MAN

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JULIAN
Nodding approval

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WESTGATE

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JULIAN
Trying deftly to pass WESTGATE on the path

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WESTGATE
Buttonholing him

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JULIAN
Visibly bored, but still affable

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WESTGATE

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JULIAN

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WESTGATE

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RAEBURN
Having spoken aside with MARK, approaches

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JULIAN
Turning cordially

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RAEBURN

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JULIAN

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

RAEBURN

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JULIAN

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RAEBURN

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WESTGATE
Winking at JULIAN.]

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JULIAN
To RAEBURN.]

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RAEBURN

Note: Contains 17 words in 1 sentence using 102 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

RAEBURN

Note: Contains 19 words in 1 sentence using 108 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 45 chars.

RAEBURN

Note: Contains 38 words in 3 sentences using 243 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 7 chars.

He pauses a moment, playing with his whip

Note: Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 66 chars.

RAEBURN

Note: Contains 51 words in 3 sentences using 298 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 17 words in 1 sentence using 89 chars.

He starts to leave
RAEBURN

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JULIAN

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 65 chars.

Speaking to MARK.]

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MARK
With a leisurely glance at JULIAN, points off left

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[JULIAN moves quickly away . RAEBURN follows him a few steps
RAEBURN

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JULIAN
Pausing rigidly, speaks low and constrained

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RAEBURN

Note: Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 94 chars.

JULIAN
Flicking off a cactus flower with his whip

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

He goes quickly off, left
RAEBURN
Taken aback

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He takes off his glasses and dusts them, glancing oddly at MARK.]

Note: Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 63 chars.

MARK
Slowly, returning RAEBURN'S look

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

RAEBURN
Readjusting his glasses on his nose

Note: Contains 10 words in 3 sentences using 42 chars.

He starts up the greenhouse path
WESTGATE

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 44 chars.

RAEBURN

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

WESTGATE

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars.

RAEBURN

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars.

He goes out, right
WESTGATE
Puffing his cigar, stares after him

Note: Contains 26 words in 4 sentences using 150 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars.

Sitting on an inverted seed-box in the path , MARK is working at the cactus bed . WESTGATE saunters over and stands behind him, where he speaks with crisp good-nature to MARK, who barely murmurs his replies, being intent on his work
WESTGATE

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MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars.

WESTGATE

Note: Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars.

WESTGATE

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars.

WESTGATE

Note: Contains 34 words in 4 sentences using 171 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars.

WESTGATE
Peering over MARK'S shoulder

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MARK

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

WESTGATE

Note: Contains 17 words in 2 sentences using 99 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars.

WESTGATE
Viewing MARK'S imperturbable back

Note: Contains 19 words in 3 sentences using 80 chars.

[WESTGATE strolls up the greenhouse path, and disappears. Without looking up , MARK continues his weeding. Through the greenhouse door , MANA DALE springs into the garden, half running — her arms filled with brilliant chaparral. She is hatless, and sun-browned: a strong girl, in her early twenties, free and joyous in her bearing. She is dressed for horseback. Approaching behind MARK, she tosses over him the mass of wild-flowers and grasses
MARK
Starting up

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MANA

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 44 chars.

MARK
Quizzically

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MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 51 words in 4 sentences using 279 chars.

MARK
Watching her with happy admiration

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MANA

Note: Contains 23 words in 3 sentences using 136 chars.

MARK
With a quiet laugh

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MANA

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 56 chars.

MARK

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MANA

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MARK

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MANA

Note: Contains 22 words in 3 sentences using 105 chars.

Tucking a spray in MARK'S shirt

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MARK
Thoughtfully

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 95 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

She seizes up a vermilion plume from the chaparral, and sways it to her gesture

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From her outreached hand she flings the plume, and stands with flashing eyes
MARK

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MANA
Starting

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MARK

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MANA

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MARK
Slow and earnest

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MANA
With sudden introspection, half fearful, as if checking her thoughts

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MARK

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MANA

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MARK

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MANA
Absently

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She sits on the box in the path, trying to focus her thoughts . MARK looks at her curiously
MARK

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MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars.

[MARK sits on the ground beside her. She puts one hand amid his tumbled hair. Throughout their scene together, by her instinctive actions and looks, more than by her words, it is evident that she feels for MARK deep trust and affection
MARK

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MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

MARK

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MANA

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MARK
With a laugh

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MANA
Smiling

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MARK

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MANA

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MARK

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MANA
Growing pensive again

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MARK

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MANA

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MARK

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MANA

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MARK

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MANA
Closing her eyes

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MARK

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MANA
Murmurs

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MARK

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[MANA touches his arm, as if to interrupt, then speaks low
MANA

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MARK

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MANA

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars.

MARK

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MANA
Starting up

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MARK
Anxiously

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MANA

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MARK
Rising slowly

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MANA

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MARK
After a pause, deeply

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MANA

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MARK
Breathing quick

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[MANA nods; then cries out, impetuously
MANA

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She moves toward MARK, naïve, confiding. He extends his hand, abrupt, unconsciously holding her off. She takes it, bewildered
MARK
Pressing her hand

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He turns away, dazed by deep emotions of which he is himself unaware. From the path he lifts the iron prong. Bending it slowly in his tightened hands, he flings it heavily from him
MANA
Wonderingly

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MARK

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MANA

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MARK

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MANA

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MARK

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MANA

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MARK

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MANA
Puzzled

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MARK
Painfully

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MANA
Wistfully

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 23 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 97 chars.

MARK
Taking her in his arms, kisses her tenderly

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

MANA
Looking at him affectionately

Note: Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 50 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars.

MANA
Listening, like a doctor for a heart-beat

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 43 chars.

[MANA raps his chest with her knuckles. The spray of verbena falls from MARK'S shirt to the path
MARK

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MANA
With a mysterious smile

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MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 15 words in 3 sentences using 77 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 49 chars.

MARK

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MANA

Note: Contains 26 words in 2 sentences using 120 chars.

MARK
With a puzzled smile

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

Outside, right, the voice of ROSALIE calls: "Mana! Where are you? Mana!" MANA listens
MANA

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Hand in hand , MANA and MARK go round the greenhouse. From the left, on the middleground path, enter PETER and JULIAN. PETER walks slowly, whittling a piece of bamboo . JULIAN slackens his pace to PETER'S, visibly controlling a restless nervousness
PETER

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JULIAN

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 62 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 11 words in 3 sentences using 63 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 17 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 43 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 46 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 47 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 68 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 118 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 45 chars.

JULIAN
Fidgeting

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PETER

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 24 words in 5 sentences using 106 chars.

Sitting on the bench , PETER goes on whittling for a moment; then he hands to JULIAN the piece of bamboo
PETER

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JULIAN

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 62 chars.

JULIAN
Starts to do so, but stops, glancing sharply at PETER.]

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PETER

Note: Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 59 chars.

He reaches for it; JULIAN hands it to him

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Looking through it with one eye, he points it upward and about in various directions

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JULIAN
Chafing

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars.

PETER
Quiet and intense

Note: Contains 32 words in 2 sentences using 154 chars.

JULIAN
Starting

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 52 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 45 chars.

JULIAN
Controlling himself

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars.

JULIAN
Darkly

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

[PETER resumes his whittling

Note: Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 66 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 60 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 9 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 42 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 60 chars.

JULIAN
Wincing

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 28 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 27 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 23 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 38 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 95 chars.

JULIAN
Startled

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 52 chars.

JULIAN
In lowered voice

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

[PETER nods, whittling

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 25 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 16 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 94 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 33 words in 3 sentences using 174 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 11 words in 3 sentences using 50 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 61 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 22 words in 4 sentences using 92 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 52 chars.

JULIAN
With a moan of relief

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars.

PETER
Putting his hand on JULIAN'S shoulder

Note: Contains 29 words in 3 sentences using 133 chars.

He turns away

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 37 words in 5 sentences using 180 chars.

PETER
Darting a keen glance

Note: Contains 11 words in 3 sentences using 54 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 82 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 34 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 62 chars.

JULIAN
With a faint show of cheerfulness

Note: Contains 20 words in 2 sentences using 107 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

He flushes, with contracting brows
JULIAN

Note: Contains 19 words in 1 sentence using 95 chars.

PETER
With a terrible look

Note: Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 13 chars.

JULIAN
Stiffening

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars.

Clutching the bamboo in both hands , PETER looks hard at it, controlling himself. Then, putting it slowly in his pocket, he points right
PETER

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 27 chars.

Moving a few steps, he pauses

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 32 chars.

He follows PETER, and cries out

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars.

PETER
With deliberation

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 65 chars.

[PETER turns up the central path. After a moment , JULIAN goes right, pausing by the greenhouse door
JULIAN

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 45 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 43 chars.

[JULIAN goes into the greenhouse . PETER goes slowly left, along the middleground path. On the same path, right , MANA enters. Seeing PETER, her face lights up, and she approaches softly behind him
MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

PETER
Turning toward her

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

He goes to her and takes her extended hands
MANA
With eager happiness

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

PETER
Looking deep in her eyes

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 50 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MANA
Quickly

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 32 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars.

Slowly, her face clouding deeply

Note: Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 64 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars.

He turns away . MANA'S face suddenly lights again. She goes to him fondly
MANA

Note: Contains 35 words in 7 sentences using 150 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

He puts one arm about her, and points to the garden

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 54 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 128 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 84 words in 4 sentences using 431 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 58 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 30 words in 2 sentences using 152 chars.

MANA
Kissing him

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 102 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 80 chars.

PETER
Pinching her cheek

Note: Contains 33 words in 2 sentences using 138 chars.

Looking at the flowers, he bends over the one with the white string

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 23 words in 3 sentences using 106 chars.

MANA
Smiling

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 26 words in 3 sentences using 131 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 31 words in 1 sentence using 162 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 66 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 36 words in 4 sentences using 176 chars.

He starts away
MANA

Note: Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 47 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

Pausing, he watches something in the air; then catches it quickly with his hand, murmuring to himself:

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

MANA
Coming near

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

PETER
Opens his hand, revealing a white, downy filament

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 44 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

He puts it in his pocket, murmuring aloud:

Note: Contains 28 words in 3 sentences using 132 chars.

He goes out, left . MANA comes slowly down to the pool, sees the starfish, looks down at it pensively, touching it with her foot, and reaching upward her arms in unconscious longing. From the right ROSALIE enters, with flowers. She comes toward the pool, humming low. Hearing her , MANA turns
ROSALIE

Note: Contains 20 words in 1 sentence using 98 chars.

MANA
Running to meet her

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars.

Laughing, she lifts ROSALIE'S face, kissing it; then leads her to the bench
ROSALIE

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 24 words in 3 sentences using 123 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 25 words in 3 sentences using 129 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

Sorting them

Note: Contains 28 words in 1 sentence using 172 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 41 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars.

Looking in the child's sightless eyes , MANA hesitates and her face quivers. Bending down, she kisses her

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

Then, assuming a quaint cheerfulness, she speaks, confidentially

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 30 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 11 words in 3 sentences using 58 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 30 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 72 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 69 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 49 chars.

MANA
After a slight pause

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 74 chars.

MANA
Slowly

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 41 chars.

MANA
Picking it up, gives it to her

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 61 chars.

MANA
Kneeling down beside her

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 45 chars.

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

[JULIAN enters from the greenhouse. Not yet seeing him , MANA puts her arms around the child and speaks low

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars.

JULIAN
Tensely, coming forward

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

MANA
Springing up at his voice

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 73 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 57 chars.

JULIAN
Starting

Note: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars.

Glancing at ROSALIE, MANA motions silence to him, and draws him away. Outside, right, an automobile horn is heard
ROSALIE

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

JULIAN
Gently

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 13 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

JULIAN
Coming to her

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

He lifts her and kisses her fondly
ROSALIE
As he puts her down

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars.

JULIAN
Smiling

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 27 chars.

[ROSALIE turns away to the bench, fingering her wildflowers, which she smells of, one by one
JULIAN
As if playfully, to MANA.]

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

MANA
Gently, looking in his face

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars.

JULIAN
Clouding

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

JULIAN
Quickly

Note: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

JULIAN
Controlling emotion

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 42 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 56 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars.

ROSALIE
Calling, and holding out a flower

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars.

JULIAN
Glancing toward the child, speaks to MANA.]

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 59 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 33 words in 4 sentences using 147 chars.

ROSALIE
Coming toward them

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

He stoops to lift a spray of verbena from, the path
ROSALIE
Pouting

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

[MANA starts to go out. In front of her , JULIAN holds out the spray of verbena. With a brilliant smile, he looks in her eyes
JULIAN

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 58 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 11 words in 3 sentences using 44 chars.

He reaches for her hand

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars.

Offering the spray for her to put in his coat, he is about to kiss her
MANA
Drawing shyly away, waves to him, with a smile

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

She goes off, round the greenhouse . JULIAN stands looking after her. Outside the click of the gate is heard
ROSALIE

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

[JULIAN closes his eyes, as in sudden pain. Holding in one hand her starfish , ROSALIE gropes with the other and twitches his coat

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 30 chars.

JULIAN
Turning quickly

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars.

He leads her by the hand into the greenhouse. Outside, is heard the querulous, slightly husky voice of a woman, calling: "Ignatius! Ignatius!" Soon after, on the greenhouse path , MRS. HENSHAWE enters. She is a woman past sixty, of handsome features, penetrating eyes and forceful presence, but dowdy in dress, and fidgety in her slow movements. Her outward appearance conveys a crass contrast of qualities. She wears a dull-colored gown, beneath a duster of ample dimensions. On her head is an ultrafashionable hat, swathed in a light-green automobile veil, and in her white-gloved hand is a purple parasol. Close behind her follows a small, trig, business-like woman of about thirty, with twinkling eyes: MISS WINCH. She also is dressed for automobiling, but in plain, practical garb. In her hands she holds a small camera, which she is focusing upon MRS. HENSHAWE.]
MRS. HENSHAWE
Muttering audibly

Note: Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 62 chars.

MISS WINCH
Cheerily

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Turning portentously to stare at her

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars.

MISS WINCH
Clicking her kodak

Note: Contains 41 words in 5 sentences using 259 chars.

She laughs pleasantly
MRS. HENSHAWE
Gasping

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

She sinks into a garden chair, near the greenhouse . MISS WINCH, tucking the kodak under her arm, takes a small pad from her hat, and a pencil from her glove
MISS WINCH

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars.

[MRS. HENSHAWE moves the open parasol between them, raises her voice, and calls:
MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

Muttering again

Note: Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 72 chars.

MISS WINCH
Writing on her pad

Note: Contains 13 words in 4 sentences using 78 chars.

Peering round the parasol

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

Closing the parasol , MRS. HENSHAWE looks at her with dumb reproof . MISS WINCH bites her lip

Note: Contains 20 words in 3 sentences using 95 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Rising

Note: Contains 20 words in 2 sentences using 111 chars.

Crossing to the bench, she calls again:

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

MISS WINCH
Following her

Note: Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 68 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 105 chars.

MISS WINCH

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 43 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 52 words in 3 sentences using 236 chars.

MISS WINCH

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 49 chars.

[MRS. HENSHAWE turns to speak, but closes her lips again grimly

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 16 words in 3 sentences using 75 chars.

MISS WINCH

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 27 words in 5 sentences using 139 chars.

MISS WINCH

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Rising, flustered

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

MISS WINCH

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

Enter, right, on the middleground path , RAEBURN and MARK. MARK is pushing a wheelbarrow, with a shovel in it. They stop by the cactus bed
MARK
Earnestly, to RAEBURN.]

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars.

RAEBURN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars.

MISS WINCH
Glancing toward the men, speaks to MRS. HENSHAWE.]

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

From the greenhouse , MANA enters. She wears a felt hat and carries a short whip. Seeing MRS. HENSHAWE, she comes forward graciously
MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 19 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
With open arms

Note: Contains 8 words in 3 sentences using 46 chars.

She embraces MANA, with cordial ejaculations, while MISS WINCH, at one side, points the camera . RAEBURN, indicating the three women, speaks to MARK.]
RAEBURN

Note: Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 69 chars.

MARK
Glancing

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

He begins to shovel the weeded cacti into his wheelbarrow. Leaving him , RAEBURN passes along the middleground path and goes out, left
MANA
To MRS. HENSHAWE.]

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars.

Catching sight of MISS WINCH, who clicks the camera , MANA checks herself, and bows slightly

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 22 chars.

MISS WINCH

Note: Contains 40 words in 5 sentences using 195 chars.

MANA
With a smile

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

MISS WINCH

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars.

She goes off by the greenhouse path
MRS. HENSHAWE
Starting after her

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

Then turning, with a wreath of smiles, to MANA.]

Note: Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 54 chars.

MANA
Simply

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 62 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 16 words in 3 sentences using 79 chars.

MANA
With increasing reserve

Note: Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 22 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 83 words in 5 sentences using 401 chars.

MANA
Uneasily

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 92 words in 11 sentences using 461 chars.

MANA
Retreating

Note: Contains 16 words in 3 sentences using 76 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 20 words in 5 sentences using 113 chars.

She pauses in consternation . MANA, going out, right, has smiled and tossed a kiss to MARK in the background. Beholding it , MRS. HENSHAWE stands open-mouthed

Note: Contains 6 words in 3 sentences using 36 chars.

Sitting on the bench, she leans sidewise and squints at MARK, who is at work. Then, opening and raising her parasol, she rises and walks toward him, up the central path. Here she hems in her throat, and speaks with distinct affability

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

At her voice , MARK drops his wheelbarrow precipitately and moves off
MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

He goes out, left . MRS. HENSHAWE follows as far as the cross path and peers after him. Enter, from the greenhouse , JULIAN and a plump, elderly, clerical gentleman, earnest and urbane: MR. SPOFFORD.]
SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 33 words in 4 sentences using 191 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 63 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 31 words in 3 sentences using 174 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 77 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 90 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 68 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 7 words in 3 sentences using 40 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 21 words in 3 sentences using 112 chars.

SPOFFORD
Starting back

Note: Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 19 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 26 words in 5 sentences using 127 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Approaching from the middle ground

Note: Contains 19 words in 4 sentences using 118 chars.

JULIAN
Pacing to and fro

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 19 words in 4 sentences using 111 chars.

[SPOFFORD starts uneasily

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 69 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Bristling

Note: Contains 17 words in 3 sentences using 80 chars.

JULIAN
Morosely

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 29 words in 3 sentences using 140 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 40 words in 4 sentences using 195 chars.

JULIAN
Turning away, bitterly

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 7 chars.

SPOFFORD
With reproof

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Glancing toward the cactus bed

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 76 chars.

With effusion she greets MANA, who enters from the greenhouse
SPOFFORD
Also greeting her

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars.

SPOFFORD
Kissing her hand

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

JULIAN
With repressed excitement

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

He takes her riding whip, and starts to go, right. In the left middle ground , MARK reënters
SPOFFORD
Uneasily

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars.

MANA
Quietly

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

JULIAN
To SPOFFORD.]

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

To MANA.]

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

SPOFFORD
With excitement

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

[MRS. HENSHAWE gasps, and hurries, gesticulating, to SPOFFORD.]
MANA
To JULIAN.]

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 8 words in 3 sentences using 37 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 30 words in 3 sentences using 163 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 41 chars.

He is drawing her away. They are entering the greenhouse . SPOFFORD puts aside MRS. HENSHAWE, who is trying to whisper to him, and speaks with perturbed command
SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 59 chars.

JULIAN
With sudden coolness

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars.

With set face he returns. After a pause, he speaks huskily

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MANA
Very low

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 43 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
With ineffectual gestures

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 98 chars.

With supplication

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

MANA
Very gently

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

JULIAN
Awe-struck

Note: Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 15 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 45 words in 4 sentences using 206 chars.

SPOFFORD
To MANA.]

Note: Contains 19 words in 1 sentence using 88 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Sinking on to the bench, in tears

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 33 words in 3 sentences using 179 chars.

SPOFFORD
Embarrassed

Note: Contains 26 words in 2 sentences using 149 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 34 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 20 words in 3 sentences using 97 chars.

JULIAN
Springing to her side

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 24 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 69 chars.

JULIAN
Going with her

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

They go out. As they go , MARK — from the middleground — comes slowly forward
SPOFFORD
Intensely

Note: Contains 8 words in 3 sentences using 38 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Rising, in great agitation

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 18 words in 4 sentences using 101 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Shrilly

Note: Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 59 chars.

She hurries off, along the greenhouse path . SPOFFORD starts to follow her. As he passes the central path , MARK steps abruptly in his way
SPOFFORD
Trying to pass

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

MARK
Tensely

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 43 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 8 words in 3 sentences using 36 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 13 chars.

SPOFFORD
Avoiding MARK'S eye

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 21 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 28 chars.

MARK
Slowly

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 25 chars.

MARK
Breathing hard

Note: Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 47 chars.

SPOFFORD
Looks in MARK'S quivering face

Note: Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 66 chars.

He whispers an instant to MARK, whose flushed face sets pale and hard
MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars.

SPOFFORD
Hurrying past him up the path, glances backward in fear

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

He disappears. The gate clicks . MARK stands with closed eyes and clenched hands. Outside, right, the clatter of horses' hoofs sounds harsh on the stone court, then muffled on the roadway. Meantime, in the left middleground , PETER DALE enters quietly. Hearing the hoofs , MARK starts, and runs up the central path, meeting PETER. There, clutching PETER'S arm, he points along the row of eucalyptus trees, staring. The sound of galloping grows fainter in the distance .
CURTAIN.

ACT SECOND

Among the cypresses on the California coast. A cliff, overlooking the sea. The scene is sparsely overshadowed by somber wraiths of trees: writhing boughs and contorted skeleton trunks, twisted slantwise from the shore, from which the stricken grove seems to be fleeing in rooted frenzy. Through the dun-green foliage and stark gray silhouettes, the setting sun reddens the purple Pacific between fog-banks. On the left, a jutting elevation of the cliff rises above the scene's level, and scrambles in sharp, rocky heaps beyond sight, leaving a rough-sided stone niche, on the ground level, shut off from the sea and the winds. By this stands a boulder; nearby, lies the log of a fallen tree. On the right, clutched and half concealed by the cypresses, the porch and squat roof of a small bungalow blend with the surroundings .

From the left enters a woman, wearing a gray automobile veil. She is followed, with quick steps, by a man dressed in a chauffeur's uniform. The woman looks about her furtively; goes to the porch and tries the door; then peers through a slit in the shade-drawn window. The woman is MISS WINCH.

MISS WINCH

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars.

THE CHAUFFEUR

Note: Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 56 chars.

MISS WINCH
Points off right

Note: Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 50 chars.

CHAUFFEUR

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 60 chars.

MISS WINCH

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 64 chars.

She blows softly a little whistle attached to her watch chain

Note: Contains 27 words in 3 sentences using 138 chars.

CHAUFFEUR

Note: Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 5 chars.

He goes out. The woman stands a moment, looking off left; then she moves quickly toward the bungalow, and disappears behind it. Enter, left , MANA and JULIAN. MANA'S face is vaguely troubled. She walks close to JULIAN, who appears rather to lead than to accompany her. Restively she turns her head, glancing from tree to tree
JULIAN

Note: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 40 chars.

MANA
In a low voice

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

[MANA points — with a gesture at once fascinated and repelled — toward the trees

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 49 chars.

JULIAN
With a laugh

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 36 words in 4 sentences using 194 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 23 words in 2 sentences using 130 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 61 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 38 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 19 words in 1 sentence using 99 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

JULIAN
Taking her arm, leads her nearer the bungalow

Note: Contains 23 words in 2 sentences using 142 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 68 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 34 chars.

He points; she gazes a moment, without speaking. He shows his disappointment

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

MANA
Murmurs

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

JULIAN
Softly

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MANA
With sinking voice

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

Going to the porch, he unlocks the door

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 25 chars.

MANA
Looking back at the cypresses

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

They go within and disappear. After a brief pause , MARK enters from the left. He is heated with riding, and covered with dust. Going hastily toward the bungalow, he pauses near the door, gazing in. Slowly then he moves off, right, and disappears among the trees, as JULIAN and MANA come out again
JULIAN

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 46 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 79 chars.

JULIAN
With embarrassment

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars.

[MANA steals away from the house. He follows anxiously

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 27 words in 3 sentences using 131 chars.

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 47 chars.

JULIAN
Playfully assuming a terrible aspect

Note: Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 23 chars.

Laughing, he seizes her

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MANA
Draws away fearfully

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

JULIAN
Discomfited

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 61 chars.

Gazing about her

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 45 chars.

JULIAN
Growing gloomy

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars.

MANA
Moving farther away

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 44 chars.

MANA
Pensively

Note: Contains 21 words in 3 sentences using 95 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 65 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 12 words in 3 sentences using 72 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 7 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

She pauses
JULIAN
uneasily

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars.

JULIAN
Startled

Note: Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 20 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 50 chars.

JULIAN
Looking at the ground and shifting his feet

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

He is silent for a moment; then glancing up, he is about to speak, when MANA continues pensively
MANA

Note: Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 59 chars.

JULIAN
Nervously

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 7 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 18 words in 1 sentence using 93 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 56 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 84 words in 5 sentences using 448 chars.

JULIAN
With a smile

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 31 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 50 words in 5 sentences using 257 chars.

JULIAN
Passionately

Note: Contains 10 words in 3 sentences using 51 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars.

She sits on the fallen log
JULIAN

Note: Contains 12 words in 3 sentences using 53 chars.

MANA
Simply

Note: Contains 55 words in 4 sentences using 316 chars.

JULIAN
Mutters low

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

MANA
Oblivious

Note: Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 49 chars.

JULIAN
In a flat voice

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars.

MANA
Starting from her thoughts

Note: Contains 49 words in 5 sentences using 232 chars.

JULIAN
Sitting beside her, looks close in her face

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars.

MANA
Smiling faintly

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars.

JULIAN
Fervently

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 16 words in 1 sentence using 93 chars.

MANA
Low and fascinated

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 16 words in 3 sentences using 79 chars.

MANA
Eluding his embrace, rises

Note: Contains 24 words in 3 sentences using 123 chars.

With a glad cry, she looks up through the boughs

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 25 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

MANA
Mysteriously, pointing

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars.

Looking upward

Note: Contains 26 words in 3 sentences using 120 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

MANA
With a happy sigh

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 71 words in 8 sentences using 366 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 53 chars.

MANA
Shaking her head

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 43 chars.

Moving away

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 10 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 53 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 20 words in 3 sentences using 95 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 73 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars.

[JULIAN goes into the bungalow . MANA, stooping down, begins to gather wood on the ground, humming to herself. The scene grows dimmer in the twilight
MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars.

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

Visibly a tranquil reverie steals over her. Laying an armful of the gathered dead wood near the rocky niche, she stands — with her back to the boulder — looking under the boughs toward the paling sunset. Silently where she is gazing the shadowy figure of MARK emerges and stands silhouetted . MANA'S lips part, and she reaches one hand toward him. Thus, motionless, they stand gazing at each other — shadow confronting shadow. Only the sound of the sea is faintly heard. Suddenly the voice of JULIAN snaps the silence
JULIAN
Coming from the house, holds up a little box

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

For an instant , MANA moves her hand across her eyes, but does not turn. As quickly the form of MARK disappears. She gazes again . JULIAN speaks lower

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

[MANA seems not to hear. She moves again slowly to gather boughs, and resumes her humming. In the quiet pause , JULIAN watches her, fascinated, where she bends in the dusk, rapt in a kind of happy reverie. He murmurs to himself

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MANA
Humming

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 28 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 66 chars.

MANA
Oblivious

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 34 chars.

JULIAN
Approaching her

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

MANA
Handing him an armful of dead branches

Note: Contains 7 words in 3 sentences using 41 chars.

JULIAN
Stops abruptly, looking at her. Then, after a pause, speaks

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MANA
Starting

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars.

Puzzled

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

He turns quickly and carries the branches behind the rock, beyond sight . MANA follows and, standing by the boulder, speaks to him behind it
MANA

Note: Contains 18 words in 4 sentences using 89 chars.

Humming

Note: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 38 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 79 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 91 chars.

JULIAN
Coming from behind the rock

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 10 words in 3 sentences using 48 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 12 words in 3 sentences using 60 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars.

Springing lightly toward the bungalow, she calls back

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

JULIAN
Starting again, eyes her keenly

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

Speaking slowly, while his face darkens

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MANA
Not hearing the last, speaks from the porch

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

She goes indoors . JULIAN stands a moment, looking after her. Within the house a match is struck, and soon candle-light shines through the open door . JULIAN'S face grows darker with feeling; and he murmurs harshly
JULIAN

Note: Contains 5 words in 3 sentences using 30 chars.

He turns slowly and, gathering up more fuel, moves behind the rock. In a moment his stooping shadow is cast, by a flickering glow, across the scene. The glow increases, and smoke drifts upward along the stony ridges on the left. On the right , MARK enters from the cypresses, and stands gaunt in the firelight. Deliberately, he crosses toward the rock, and pauses near it. Suddenly the stooped shadow of JULIAN lengthens to full height, and his voice comes sharp from behind the rock

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

MARK
Quietly

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

JULIAN
Coming from behind the rock

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 66 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 88 chars.

MARK
Still more quiet

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 36 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 10 words in 3 sentences using 48 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars.

JULIAN
Moving, in agitation

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 66 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 35 words in 4 sentences using 172 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 17 words in 3 sentences using 91 chars.

He turns, and moves toward the bungalow . JULIAN follows him feverishly
JULIAN

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 10 words in 4 sentences using 52 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

He moves on
JULIAN
With sudden intensity, causing MARK to pause

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

Then slowly

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 51 chars.

MARK
Harshly

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 18 words in 4 sentences using 78 chars.

MARK
Keenly

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars.

He moves on again
JULIAN

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 28 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 32 chars.

From within the house , MANA'S voice calls: "Julian!"]
JULIAN

Note: Contains 12 words in 3 sentences using 50 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 13 words in 3 sentences using 57 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 27 words in 5 sentences using 141 chars.

MARK
With a scorching look

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

He turns to go into the house . JULIAN gets in his way
JULIAN
Feverishly

Note: Contains 42 words in 8 sentences using 168 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars.

JULIAN
Painfully

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars.

MANA
Calls from within

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

JULIAN
Wildly

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 23 chars.

MARK
Slowly

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars.

He disappears in the darkness, left . JULIAN moves out of the fire's glow into the obscurity of the background, where his form, indistinctly visible, paces back and forth against the pale sea-line .

From the bungalow , MANA reappears, carrying in her hand a covered basket. She comes lightly from the porch toward the fire, still humming to herself

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars.

Note: Contains 30 words in 5 sentences using 145 chars.

JULIAN
Huskily

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars.

She lifts it from the basket

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars.

Approaching , JULIAN looks at her, trembling; takes the doll in his hand, then lets it fall to the ground
JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

MANA
Stooping to lift it, looks up suddenly as JULIAN turns away with a moaning sound

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

JULIAN
Shuddering

Note: Contains 17 words in 4 sentences using 98 chars.

MANA
Going to him

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

JULIAN
Wildly, pointing at the cypresses

Note: Contains 31 words in 1 sentence using 181 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 15 words in 3 sentences using 90 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 13 words in 3 sentences using 65 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 66 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 52 words in 3 sentences using 257 chars.

[MANA holds out the doll
MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

JULIAN
Takes it again, stares at it blankly, then looks closer

Note: Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 77 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

JULIAN
Agonized

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 64 chars.

He flings the doll into the darkness
MANA

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 23 words in 4 sentences using 91 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 17 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 6 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars.

He pauses
MANA
Gently

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 30 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

JULIAN
Pointing toward the bungalow

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 53 chars.

He buries his face
MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 21 words in 3 sentences using 105 chars.

His voice breaks
MANA
Pitifully

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

Looking in MANA'S face, he reaches for her hand, with a cry

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars.

MANA
Caressing his hand

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 21 words in 5 sentences using 106 chars.

MANA
Gently

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

JULIAN
Controlling himself

Note: Contains 25 words in 3 sentences using 137 chars.

MANA
Murmurs

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 7 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 43 chars.

MANA
Faintly

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

JULIAN
Very slowly

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 73 chars.

MANA
With deep pity

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

JULIAN
Staring at her

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

He grasps MANA'S arm — his features twitching — and speaks huskily

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 57 chars.

With bowed head, he sinks upon the ground, clinging to MANA'S knees. She caresses his forehead
MANA

Note: Contains 20 words in 4 sentences using 104 chars.

JULIAN
Hysterically

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars.

MANA
Gently

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 23 words in 4 sentences using 100 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

JULIAN
Growing more hysterical

Note: Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 61 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 70 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 98 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 16 words in 3 sentences using 83 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 50 words in 7 sentences using 221 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 49 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 32 words in 5 sentences using 153 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 78 chars.

JULIAN
Wildly

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 15 words in 4 sentences using 78 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 63 chars.

MANA
Appealingly

Note: Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 13 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 10 words in 3 sentences using 62 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars.

JULIAN
Growing wilder

Note: Contains 25 words in 2 sentences using 122 chars.

MANA
Breathing quicker

Note: Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars.

JULIAN

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 54 chars.

MANA
Drawing away from him, appalled

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 26 chars.

They gaze for a moment in each other's eyes — fearfully . JULIAN'S eyes fall. He reaches toward her
JULIAN

Note: Contains 13 words in 4 sentences using 58 chars.

MANA
With an anguished cry

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars.

JULIAN
Clinging to her, hysterically

Note: Contains 40 words in 9 sentences using 166 chars.

MANA
Tearing herself from him

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

She rushes into the bungalow, closing the door . JULIAN stands for an instant, dazed, swaying, muttering: "Mana, Mana, no!" Then, recovering himself, he staggers after her. As he reaches the porch, the candle-light from the window is obscured by a shadow, which emerges from behind the porch pillar. Before him stands MARK who has entered from the darkness beyond . JULIAN pauses and draws back, breathing hard. Then he speaks huskily
JULIAN

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 27 chars.

MARK
Stepping toward him

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

Seizing JULIAN with both arms, he lifts him bodily, with a mighty clutch, and bears him into the middleground. Here the two forms sway in the firelight, now flickering from its embers. Partly freeing himself , JULIAN cries out, struggling for release
JULIAN

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

Gagging him with one hand , MARK twists backward JULIAN'S torse, and forces him backward, writhing, beyond the glow of the fire. At JULIAN'S cry, the door has opened, and MANA looks forth, straining to see
MANA
Groping outward

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

Silently the forms wrestle backward. On the dim verge of the cliff they pause, panting. There, with a sudden jerk, one is flung outward, falling, and disappears with a quivering cry
MANA
Calls, in fear

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

Stumbling toward the cliff, she confronts the tall form of MARK, moving into the firelight

Note: Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 17 chars.

With a smothered, half-joyful sound, she runs to him, crouching close, as for protection
MARK
Looking down at her

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

MANA
Faintly

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

MARK
Points toward the cliff

Note: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 43 chars.

MANA
Drawing back

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 27 chars.

MARK
Slowly, staring ahead of him

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

With a low, moaned cry , MANA sinks on the ground, cowering. The fire goes out in darkness. Faintly, from the right, a whistle sounds; from the left, a far motor-horn. Below the cliff, dully, the surf beats .
CURTAIN.

ACT THIRD

The garden: late afternoon. Long shadows of eucalyptus trees fall across the flame-colored flowers. Far on the mountains the slant sun-beams sharpen the ridges of the golden canyons .

In the central path stands ROSALIE, alone. She seems bewildered. She is listening. From the left rises a droning of men's voices in song .

The sleepy sound draws nearer and, along the middleground path, laborers enter in file. They are Mexican half-breeds and Japanese coolies, bearing on their backs brush-heaps of small trees. Some of these have fallen and clutter the paths. Passing through the flowers, they disappear, right, the Mexican workmen murmuring their stuttered song, the Japanese in stolid silence .

While they have been passing , ROSALIE has picked up a small broken branch, and stands fingering it, as she tries to hum the men's minor-keyed song, which dies away beyond the scene .

From the right enters a young woman, dressed as a trained nurse. She has a hushed, impersonal air. She comes toward ROSALIE.

THE YOUNG WOMAN
In a low voice

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

ROSALIE
Starting

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

THE YOUNG WOMAN

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 18 words in 3 sentences using 81 chars.

THE YOUNG WOMAN

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

ROSALIE

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 49 chars.

THE YOUNG WOMAN

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

ROSALIE
Going with her

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 55 chars.

They go into the greenhouse. From the right enter MRS. HENSHAWE and SPOFFORD. MRS. HENSHAWE'S eyes are red with weeping, and occasionally she sobs . SPOFFORD is divided in his attention between a bundle of newspapers, which he holds under his arm — reading from one which is open — and his solicitude for MRS. HENSHAWE. Together they pass slowly along the middleground path
MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 50 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 53 chars.

Mutters as he reads

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 45 chars.

SPOFFORD
Consolingly

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 36 chars.

SPOFFORD
Muttering

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 49 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Pausing to look at the wheelbarrow in the path

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 17 words in 1 sentence using 90 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 16 words in 3 sentences using 86 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 58 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
As they go out, seizes SPOFFORD'S arm, and points suddenly off scene, toward the left foreground

Note: Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 21 chars.

They go out. On the path behind the bench MARK enters, followed soon by PETER. On his entrance, there is evident in MARK'S face and movements a new and feverish energy, controlled but burning inward. Pausing in the path, he breaks suddenly a flower from its stalk and mechanically tears its petals to pieces, while his eyes search the garden . PETER enters slowly, holding in both hands his inverted straw hat, into which he looks down pensively
PETER

Note: Contains 21 words in 3 sentences using 114 chars.

MARK
Murmurs

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 15 words in 1 sentence using 81 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 75 chars.

Glancing at the flower, which MARK has torn and scattered on the path, he touches MARK'S arm

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars.

MARK
Starting

Note: Contains 9 words in 3 sentences using 38 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 38 chars.

MARK
Searchingly

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 57 chars.

MARK
Introspective

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 21 words in 4 sentences using 101 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars.

With sudden conviction, he turns to PETER.]

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

MARK
Bursting forth

Note: Contains 12 words in 3 sentences using 45 chars.

PETER
With a faint smile

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 24 words in 2 sentences using 121 chars.

PETER
Nodding

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 15 words in 1 sentence using 72 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 26 words in 4 sentences using 132 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 19 words in 3 sentences using 98 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 37 words in 4 sentences using 193 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 90 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 28 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 35 words in 5 sentences using 168 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 64 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 47 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 22 words in 4 sentences using 112 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 54 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 65 chars.

He turns away with a gesture of passionate suffering . PETER, with an anxious look, follows him
PETER

Note: Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 54 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 39 words in 5 sentences using 178 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 31 words in 4 sentences using 141 chars.

He starts away, right . PETER doesn't move, but speaks quietly
PETER

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MARK
Pausing

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 59 chars.

MARK
Returning slowly

Note: Contains 22 words in 4 sentences using 100 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

They go out, by the foreground path, left. From the left middleground , SPOFFORD enters, looks about, and passes off, right, round the green-house. Presently the tall cacti in the background are parted, and MANA emerges. She is dressed in a simple, flower-like gown of gray, and comes slowly down the central path to the pool. Here for a moment she stands silent and rigid, then sinks to a crouching posture on the margin, staring in the water. Behind her, from the left foreground , PETER enters, sees her and approaches quietly. Bending over, he touches her with a light caress, and speaks low
PETER

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars.

MANA
Without turning, shivers

Note: Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 77 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 22 words in 3 sentences using 133 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 40 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 15 words in 3 sentences using 75 chars.

With quaint tenderness, he draws her to him. Oblivious, she looks away, right
MANA

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 55 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 25 words in 3 sentences using 141 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 63 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 27 words in 2 sentences using 128 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 54 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 42 words in 4 sentences using 199 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars.

MANA
Turning, startled

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 32 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 36 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

PETER
Smiling faintly

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 33 words in 3 sentences using 153 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 24 words in 4 sentences using 122 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 30 words in 5 sentences using 159 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 84 words in 6 sentences using 424 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 18 words in 3 sentences using 76 chars.

PETER
Ruminating

Note: Contains 38 words in 4 sentences using 180 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 68 chars.

MANA
Putting her face against him

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 50 chars.

PETER
Caressingly

Note: Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 65 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 34 chars.

She kisses him; then turns away

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 17 words in 3 sentences using 82 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 28 words in 5 sentences using 130 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 42 chars.

MANA
With amazement

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 45 words in 3 sentences using 214 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 49 chars.

Smiling happily, he starts away

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 54 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

PETER

Note: Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 78 chars.

He points off scene, left
MANA
Following him

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

PETER
Pausing to return her caress

Note: Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 69 chars.

Laborers are passing in the middleground. He shows her the brushwood on their backs

Note: Contains 45 words in 5 sentences using 221 chars.

He goes out, left . MANA follows him with her eyes; then she turns and moves slowly toward the greenhouse. In her path lies MARK'S garden prong. Seeing it, she pauses with a look of reminiscence. Then she lifts it, examines the bend in the iron; tries to bend it, but cannot. Meantime MRS. HENSHAWE enters, in the left middleground. Seeing MANA, she sets her features hard, and approaches, in slow-moving haste
MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

[MANA drops the iron, closing her eyes, as if struck

Note: Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 84 chars.

MANA
Without turning

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 55 words in 5 sentences using 263 chars.

MANA
In a low voice

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars.

[MANA quivers

Note: Contains 36 words in 5 sentences using 156 chars.

MANA
Turning

Note: Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 14 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
With increasing rapidity

Note: Contains 54 words in 6 sentences using 254 chars.

MANA
With wonder

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 21 words in 4 sentences using 95 chars.

MANA
Intense and quiet

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 34 words in 6 sentences using 166 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 56 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Exasperated

Note: Contains 71 words in 7 sentences using 375 chars.

Breathing hard with pent-up emotion , MANA turns quickly to speak, but curbs herself. Then she murmurs low
MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 65 words in 9 sentences using 301 chars.

MANA
Starting as at a quick sting

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars.

Her voice and face kindle

Note: Contains 103 words in 7 sentences using 538 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Gasping

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MANA
Swept by her feeling

Note: Contains 100 words in 9 sentences using 527 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 58 words in 7 sentences using 263 chars.

MANA
With quiet tensity

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
With a scared look

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Fidgeting to control herself

Note: Contains 22 words in 2 sentences using 114 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Increasingly moved

Note: Contains 37 words in 5 sentences using 173 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 29 words in 4 sentences using 157 chars.

[MANA puts one hand gently on MRS. HENSHAWE'S shoulder. For an instant the older woman returns her look of tenderness with a glance half fearful, half in tears. Then, embarrassed, she shakes MANA off, with a shrug of affected unconcern
MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 34 words in 4 sentences using 165 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 17 words in 1 sentence using 91 chars.

From the greenhouse, the TRAINED NURSE enters
THE NURSE

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 21 chars.

THE NURSE

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 54 chars.

MANA
Quietly

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

[THE NURSE goes out
MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MANA
Slowly

Note: Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 47 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Staring

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 34 words in 3 sentences using 157 chars.

She turns away
MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

Enter SPOFFORD, right. He carries a newspaper

Note: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 48 chars.

SPOFFORD
Approaching

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 77 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 40 words in 6 sentences using 205 chars.

Showing the newspaper

Note: Contains 36 words in 3 sentences using 198 chars.

MANA
Very low

Note: Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 56 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 27 words in 1 sentence using 168 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 60 words in 8 sentences using 339 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 49 words in 5 sentences using 248 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 36 words in 3 sentences using 214 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 46 words in 2 sentences using 264 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE

Note: Contains 18 words in 3 sentences using 99 chars.

Reënter, right, the TRAINED NURSE.]
THE NURSE

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars.

[THE NURSE goes out
SPOFFORD
To MANA.]

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

MANA
Quietly

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars.

SPOFFORD

Note: Contains 25 words in 2 sentences using 128 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Tearfully

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

MANA
Anguished

Note: Contains 73 words in 6 sentences using 371 chars.

SPOFFORD
To MRS. HENSHAWE, with a look of troubled questioning

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

MRS. HENSHAWE
Hurrying him off

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars.

[MRS. HENSHAWE and SPOFFORD go off, right . MANA gazes after them, shuddering. Behind her, left, enters MARK. With swift motion, he approaches her — his face lighted with inward fire. Just behind her, he pauses and visibly controls himself. Then, speaking, his voice rings wild and strange — as of one in pain speaking through him
MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

At his voice , MANA turns, glances in fear, and — wild-eyed — springs away

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 26 chars.

[MANA pauses, compelled

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars.

MANA
Hardly vocal

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 15 words in 4 sentences using 66 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars.

MANA
Mechanically

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 73 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 29 words in 6 sentences using 151 chars.

MANA
Awe-struck

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 64 chars.

MANA
Murmurs

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 13 words in 3 sentences using 66 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 40 words in 4 sentences using 220 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 30 words in 6 sentences using 160 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 25 words in 3 sentences using 125 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 34 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 8 words in 3 sentences using 39 chars.

MANA
Breathless

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars.

With a deep cry

Note: Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 30 chars.

He starts away
MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 27 words in 3 sentences using 117 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 43 chars.

MANA
Tense and low

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

[MARK is moving away

Note: Contains 11 words in 3 sentences using 56 chars.

MARK
Pausing

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 47 chars.

MARK
With vague questioning

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 84 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars.

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

MARK
Murmuring

Note: Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 36 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 60 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 42 chars.

MARK
Staring

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 40 words in 7 sentences using 194 chars.

MARK
In wonder

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 65 words in 10 sentences using 317 chars.

MARK
Yearningly

Note: Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 19 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 19 words in 2 sentences using 78 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 17 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 96 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 44 chars.

MARK
Slowly, gazing at her

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars.

MANA
Simply

Note: Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 42 chars.

MARK
With awe

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 59 chars.

MARK
With a great breath

Note: Contains 28 words in 5 sentences using 113 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars.

MANA
Murmurs

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 49 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars.

They move toward each other . MARK draws suddenly back, with a hoarse cry

Note: Contains 13 words in 4 sentences using 55 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 40 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 63 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

MANA

Note: Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 62 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 21 words in 3 sentences using 99 chars.

Enter the TRAINED NURSE, right
THE NURSE

Note: Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars.

THE NURSE

Note: Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 83 chars.

MANA
Feverishly

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars.

THE NURSE

Note: Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars.

MANA
Faintly

Note: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars.

[THE NURSE goes out. During a long, silent moment , MANA and MARK look at each other
MANA

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

MARK

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars.

Note: Contains 0 words in 0 sentences using 0 chars.

Note: Contains 0 words in 0 sentences using 0 chars.

Note: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 52 chars.

MANA
Happily

Note: Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars.

PETER
Glancing from his little tree to where they stand

Note: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars.

He gazes with a quaint smile. His gaze seems to fondle all the garden
CURTAIN .
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Mathias Göbel
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TextGrid Repository (2024). American Drama. To-Morrow. To-Morrow. American Drama Corpus. Mathias Göbel. https://hdl.handle.net/21.11113/0000-0014-A3F7-B