John... Mary.... You really love me, don't you? Don't you? You really... really...
[Sinks back, with head slightly on one side and eyes closed again; does not move after this.]
Mary Speaker
[They all speak with lowered voices now.] She is asleep. She really needed the tablet. It was a mercy she got it. She was nervous and overwrought, and it has put her to sleep.
John Speaker
Yes, it was a mercy she got it. She was nervous and overwrought, and it has put her to sleep.
... And you know, Mary, she would have t... if I had struggled with her, she would have died! A struggle would have killed her.
John Thinker
And now she will die because there was no struggle.
Mary Thinker