Digital Manuscript ProjectFootfalls / Pas

M [0045] Rearrange your pillows? [0046] (Pause.) [0047] Change your draw- [0062] V [0063] [place = supralinear] Yes, but It is [place = supralinear] [0064] Pause.
sheet? [0048] (Pause.) [0049] Pass you the urinal? [0050] (Pause.) [0051] The
bedpan? [0052] (Pause.) [0053] Dress your sores? [0054] (Pause.) [place = margin left] [0055] Sponge you down? [0056] (P.) [0057] Moisten yr. lips. [0057|001] Tell
you bedtime story?Pause.all too soon.
M [0065] How old am I now? V [0066] And I? M [0070] [place = inline] (I suppose [place = inline] ) getting on for ninety. V [0071] As much as that? M [0072] Eighty-nine, ninety. V [0073] I had you late in life. M [0073|001] [0076] [place = infralinear] Pause V [0077] Could you not [place = supralinear] You might have waited? [place = inline] .I'm sorry [place = inline] Forgive me again.
V [0107] M continues pacing. [place = overwritten] , [0108] say [place = supralinear] about 2 lengths [place = supralinear] after about 5 secs. [0109] Fade out on strip.
[0110] All in darkness. [0111] Steps silent. [0112] Long pause.
[0113] Sound [place = inline] a little fainter
[0115] Fade up a little dimmer on strip. [0116] Rest in darkness.
[0117] M facing f M standing front at .
[0118] Pause.
[0123] At nightfall. [0124] (Pause.) [0125] My voice is in her head. [0126] (Pause.)
[0127] She thinks she is alone. [0128] (Pause.) [0129] See how still she
stands. [place = overwritten] , [⁁] [place = margin left] with her face to the wall.[⁁] [0130] (Pause.) [0131] How calm, outwardly [place = supralinear] unmoved. [0132] (Pause.) [0133] She has
not been out since girlhood. [0134] (Pause.) [0135] She hears in her
head, She has not been out since girlhood. [0136] (Pause.) [0137] Not
out since girlhood. [0138] (Pause.) [0139] Where is she, it may be
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