Digital Manuscript ProjectFootfalls / Pas

M [0042] Would you like me to change your position [place = margin right] again? V [0043] Yes, but it is too soon. [0044] Pause. M [0045] Straighten your pillows? [0046] (Pause.) [0047] Change your drawsheet? [0062] Pause.
[0048] (Pause.) [0049] Pass you the bedpan? [0050] (Pause.) [0051] The warming-pan?
[0052] (Pause.) [0053] Dress your sores? [0054] (Pause.) [0055] Sponge you down?
[0056] (Pause.) [0057] Moisten your poor lips? [0058] (Pause.) [0059] Pray with you?
[0060] (Pause.) [0061] For you? [place = inline] [0061|001] (Pause) [0061|002] Again.
V [0063] Yes, but it is too soon. [0064] Pause. [0064|001] M resumes pacing. [0064|002] After one length halts facing M [0065] What age am I now? M [0070] Ninety. V [0071] So much? M [0072] Eighty-nine, ninety.
front at L. [0064|003] Pause.
[0106|001] Pause. [0107] M resumes pacing. [0109] Fade out on strip. [0110] All in darkness. [0112] Pause. [0113] Chime a little fainter. [0114] Pause for echoes. [0115] Fade up to a little less on strip. [0116] Rest in darkness. [0117] M discovered facing front at R. [0118] Pause.
[0111] Steps silent [place = margin left] cease.
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