The Last Scene Scene 10 (The 1930’s. HOMESTEAD to the left, EVERGREENS still to the right but the DELL in between has vanished. Both houses look the worse for wear; HOMESTEAD sports a “For Sale” sign. Arms crossed, two young women in thirties clothing study one another. They are the actresses who played SUE and…

scene 9 (Curtain rises on a Massachusetts courtroom in the 1890’s. Judge seated at center; witness box directly beneath his high lectern, bleachers to left and right. Buzzing noises of excited crowd) JUDGE(Banging gavel) We will have order in this court! Mr. Hammond, call your witness! EMILY(Pretends to bang the gavel too) The Unknown is…

Scene 7 (MABEL and VINNIE, both black-clothed, taking tea in the Homestead parlor. EMILY cavorts, playing hopscotch games they cannot see.) EMILYIf recollecting were forgettingThen I remember not.If forgetting, recollectingHow near I had forgot.Heart! We will forget him! You and I, tonight!You may forget the warmth he gaveI will forget the light. (Mimes rolling dice)…

Scene 6 (A day later. Coffin laid out in the Evergreen library, mourners filing past. MABEL, dressed in black, peeking in the window, dodging out of sight when she thinks she might be seen. Cries bitterly. EMILY rears up out of the audience) EMILY The things that never can come back are these (Counts them…

Scene 5 A few years later… (A brilliantly sunny day a few years later. A new house has been added between the two previous houses – back of the stage. We see only its porch where MABEL sits at an old-fashioned typewriter, wearing a green eyeshade, attended by DAVID. A couple sits in each of…