mary hirard ending scene

-all right all right but my baby will live…

-she thinks her baby

-she thinks her infant

she thinks her child will give her comfort

-you were untrue mary

-you betrayed him

-and broke your marriage vows

For shame!

-you will give birth to an evil thing

-only evil comes from evil

-as we have shown you the head

-as we have shown you the heart

As we have shown you the past. As we have shown you what the far future holds.

so we will now show you what is yet to be.

she is so…so very lovely. if i ever doubted that you were worth so much suffering forgive me. What are you laughing? tell me. she will live won’t she?

oh yes of course (ad-lib)

And she will be happy?

(Ad-lib)

-then i shall love you for that if you will promise me that

-oh yes

-we can do that

-the question

However is how long?

Will she die young?

yes (ad-lib)

quite young? will she live twenty years?

Twenty? oh no no! (ad-lib)

Fifteen years?

far from that (ad-lib)

then ten years surely ten

nope (ad-lib)

then five a little five?

yes!

my poor dear little child only five brief years of life.

years! we said nothing about years!

but you just now said five…

months

oh no! my little one!

five months is quite enough

five and twenty. twenty more

-twenty more? five and twenty years? i could not stand it.

well most of it

will be there in this chair

the tranquilizing chair!

the restraining chair!

bound down like the evil thing you are

MARY: No! No! God would not permit it. He would not keep me living here in this hell hole for five and twenty years. Please dear God, sweet, sweet Jesus, be merciful to me and let me not stay here for such an age.

oh isn’t she funny?

No more than Mr.Phillips.

Why should He?

He's too busy.

Besides, He's set you up for it.

it’s gods jest mary

MARY: Get away from me. I won't listen to you. Please God, please!

FURIES: He made you beautiful.

God did.

and you made the mistake of believing in your own beauty

it’s played you a devilish trick. it’s been your doing

and your undoing. it’s played you a devil of a trick

god help me! help me!

look at her! Oh i love it when she pray to dark corners and damp walls!

to empty places between the stars if she could see stars

can you see them? (ad-lib)

MARY: I don't know. My eyesight is so dim.

it always happens

MARY: Stop it. Damn you. All of you. Where is He? And who is He? All of you. Where is He? And who is He? Is He another man? Then I'll have nothing to do with such a God.

Do you hear?

she’s now living proof that she is

insane insane

STOP!

no she gets it (ad-lib)

MARY: Yes. At lastI do understand. What if I were insane?i think I wouldn't care. The bed is firm, There is a window there that I could look from if I stood atop the bed. If I were to accept you as my companions and not resist you, I could walk about. Take some few steps. Look from the window. Sometimes I might see the sky. Smell the air. Give birth to my poor, pitiful child. Isn't that true?

yes mary