[Fiercely.]
You see it mornings and evenings. I have it all day long, and every day. I've had it for ten years. I go nowhere, I see no one. I have no pleasures. I have no friends; I've lost my friends. I'm losing my youth. I'm losing my looks. I'm losing my very soul. I'm shedding my life's blood drop by drop to keep that querulous fool alive—just merely alive! I'm tired of it! I'm sick of it! I'm desperate! I'm dying from her, I tell you!
Mary Speaker
[Still soothing
Cousin Fanny, but speaking with one hand nervously clutching her own head as she does so.]
Come, come,
Cousin Fanny—you'd better go to bed now!
Cousin Fanny
I won't go to bed yet! I want my medicine. It's time for my medicine now. I won't go to bed till I've had my sleeping tablets.
John Speaker
Where are they,
Cousin Fanny?
Cousin Fanny