GLADSTONE. I won't sit up long.
(Quietly and serenely she goes to the door, looks back for a moment, then glides through it, leaving behind a much-deceived husband, who will not hear the sound of her solitary weeping, or see any signs of it on her face when presently he comes to read Herrick at her bedside.)
(For a while he sits silent, peacefully encompassed in the thoughts with which she has provided him; then very slowly he speaks.)
GLADSTONE. Well, if it pleases her—I suppose it must be right!
CURTAIN
Possession
Dramatis Personae
JULIA ROBINSON Sisters
LAURA JAMES Sisters
MARTHA ROBINSON Sisters
SUSAN ROBINSON Their Mother
THOMAS ROBINSON Their Father
WILLIAM JAMES Husband to Laura James
HANNAH The family servant
Part Two
The Everlasting Habitations