[She sits quite still, staring in front of her—the tears are rolling down her cheeks, and she is stroking Nicky’s hair mechanically in an effort to calm him.]
Curtain
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.
‘DRAMATIS PERSONÆ’ listing: ‘Bruse Fairlight’ replaced by ‘Bruce Fairlight’.
Pg 134: ‘—it was too lovely’ replaced by ‘—It was too lovely’.