Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts by Emlyn Williams
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_She is pensive, far-away, smiling._ HUBERT: A penny for 'em. OLIVIA: I was just thinking ... I often wonder on a very fine morning what it'll be like ... for night to come. And I never can. And yet it's got to.... (_Looking at his perplexed face_) It is silly, isn't it? _DORA comes in from the kitchen with a duster and crosses towards the bedroom. She is a pretty, stupid, and rather sluttish country girl of twenty, wearing a maid's uniform. She looks depressed_. Who are those men, Dora? DORA: What men, miss? OLIVIA: Over there, behind the clearing. DORA: Oh.... (_Peering past her_) Oh. 'Adn't seen them. What are they doing poking about in that bush? OLIVIA (_absently_): I don't know. I saw them yesterday too, farther down the woods. DORA (_lamely_): I expect they're looking for something. _She goes into the bedroom._ |
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