MS-TCD-4664

Woman's face alone in constant light.

Nothing but fixed lit face & speech.

When theatre lights down before curtain
up, light on face and speech already. I.e.
light from stage same & same pre-curtain
reset

Tears thrice: near beginning, brief; towards
middle, longer; &, longest, to close.
Curtain down on ^lit weeping face.

Tears brought on each time by same
essential element, followed by pause for tears
to mount

Opening: 4 - 5 lines muffled ^speech,
curtain up, conclusion of this speech,
pause. Tears.

Talks of herself in 3^rd person

- come ^now to Kilcool^{e this} time in Kilcool from
^those other times other homes nearer town
we have seen to Kilcool^e further out (curtain
up) to live in Kilcool^e papa dead we have
seen and then mamma perhaps of grief or
partly grief that simple bug that but for grief
^enfeebling but ^{we have seen no more of that} all has

been weighed all that remained and tip
tip now the one scale now the other and so
no more those other times other homes what remained
we have seen and now Kilcool that time in
Kilcool^e with this aunt to go on living with
this aunt in Kilcool^e both parents gone we
have seen having nothing and this aunt came

forward to take the girl away the orphan
girl to take her to her bosom and take
her to her home in Kilcool^e further out this
widowed childless aunt to go on living with
her in her humble home in Kilcool^e that is
the time we are come to now. (Pause.)

Oh God grant - (Pause.) Oh grant
Time the Father ... that dark when she dies
when she so young so long ago was laid in
Redford by the sea when we come to that
time that dark room now where she was