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[0271] Emily: Not there. [0272] Mrs W: But I heard you respond.
[0273] (Pause.) [0274] I heard you say Amen. [0275] (Pause.) [⁁] [place = margin left] [0276] How could you have responded if you were not there? [0277] (Pause.) [0278] H [place = overwritten] how could
you possibly have said Amen if, as you claim, you
werr were not there? [0278|001] Emily - [0278|002] (Pause.) [0278|003] Emily: At [0278|004]
the end? (Pause.) [0278|005] The very end? [0278|006] Mrs W: Well yes I
suppose if you like, what difference does that make?
[0279] (Pause.) [0280] "...and the love of God, and the fellow [place = margin right] shiphip
of the Holy Ghost, be with us all, evermore. [0281] Amen."
[0283] I heard you distinctly. [0283|001] Emily: I was there at the [0284] (Pause. [0285] Starts pacing
very end., [place = overwritten] . [0286] after three steps [place = supralinear] one length [place = margin top] [0286]
halts facing front at R.Halts - after 3 steps halts without turning front. [0287] Long pause. [0288] Paces on, halts facing front at R. [0289] Pause.) [0289] Pause.)[0290] Emily Mrs W: Emily [place = supralinear] Amy. [place = margin right] [0291] (Pause. [0292] No louder.)
[0293] Emily [place = margin left] Amy: [place = overwritten] . [place = margin left] [0294] (Pause.) [0295] Yes, Mother. [0296] Mrs W: [place = supralinear] (Pause). [0299] Will you never have done
revolving it all? [0299|001] Emily: [place = supralinear] [0300] (Pause.) [0301] It? [0301|001] Mrs W: [place = supralinear] [0302] (Pause) [0303] It all. [0305] In your [0304] (Pause.) [0305] In your poor mind. [0306] (Pause.) [0307] It
poor mind
all. [0308] (Pause.) [0309] It all.
[0310] Pause. [0311] Fade out on strip. [0312] All in darkness.
[0313] Long [⁁] pause.
[0314] Sound [place = supralinear] Gong a little fainter still. [0315] [place = inline] Pause for echoes
[0316] Fade up [place = margin left] to a little less still [place = inline] on strip [⁁]. [0317] No sign of
Mary. [0318] Long pause [place = supralinear] Hold 15 seconds. [0319] Fade out. [0320] Curtain.
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