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[0396] and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she
did, but the eyes just slits, because of the gl^are.[0397] I bent
over her to get them in the shadow and they opened.[0398]
(Pause. [0399] Low.)[0400] Let me in.[0401] (Pause^.)[0402] We drifted in among the
reeds and stuck.[0403] The way they bent, sighing, before the stem!

[0397] I bent
over her to get them in the shadow and they opened.[0398]
(Pause. [0399] Low.)[0400] Let me in.[0401] (Pause^.)[0402] We drifted in among the
reeds and stuck.[0403] The way they bent, sighing, before the stem!

[0404] (Pause.)[0405] I lay down across her with my ^face in her breasts and
my hand on her.[0406] We lay without moving.[0407] But under us all moved,
and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.
[0408] Pause. [0409] Krapp's lips move. [0410] No sound.
[0411] Past midnight.[0412] Never knew such silence.[0413] The earth might be
uniⁿhabited.

[0414] Pause.
[0415] Here I end this reel.[0416] Box - (pause) - three, spool - (pause) -
five.[0417] (Pause.)[0418] Perhaps my best years are gone.[0419] When there was
a chance of happiness.[0420] But I wouldⁿ't want them bac^k.[0421] Not with
the fire burning in me now.[0422] No, I would^n't want them back.
[0423] Krapp motionless staring before him. [0424] The tape runs on in
silence.

[0425] Curtain