EMILY: Oh, no. You know why should that be ( )?

STAGE MANAGER: Because you not ( ) live it; you ( ) yourself living it.

STAGE MANAGER: And as you do, you ( ) the things that they—down there—never know. You see the ( ). You know what's going to ( ).

EMILY: But is that—painful? Why?

MRS. GIBBS: Well, that's not the only ( ) why you shouldn't do it, Emily. When you've been here ( ) you'll understand. Our life here is to forget all ( ), and to think about what's ( ), and be ready for what is ahead. When you've been here longer you'll ( ).

EMILY: But, Mother Gibbs, how can I ever ( ) that life? It's all I know. It's all I
( ).

MRS. SOAMES: Oh, Emily. It isn't ( ). Really, it isn't.

EMILY: But it's a thing I must ( ) for myself. I'll ( ) a happy day, anyway.

MRS. GIBBS: No!—At least, choose an ( ) day. Choose the ( ) important day of your life. It will be important ( ).

EMILY: Well, then it can't be since I was ( ); or since the baby was
( ). I can choose a birthday at ( ), can't I?—I choose my twelfth birthday.

STAGE MANAGER: All right, February 11th, 1899. A Tuesday. Any particular ( ) of day?

EMILY: Oh, I want the ( ) day.

STAGE MANAGER: We'll begin at ( ). You remember it had been
( ); but it had stopped the night ( ), and they had begun clearing the ( ). The sun's ( ) up.

EMILY: Look! There's Main Street... why, that's Mr. Morgan's drugstore before he
( ) it!... And there's the livery ( ).

EMILY: Look! Father Gibbs is bringing some of my ( ) to you. He looks just
( ) George, doesn't he? Oh, Mother Gibbs, I never realized before how
( ) and how... how in the ( ) live people are. Look at him. I ( ) him so. From morning ( ) night, that's all they are—( ).

THE DEAD: Little ( ) than it was.—Yes, that rain's ( ) it off a little. Those ( ) winds always do the same thing, don't they? If it isn't a rain, it's a three-day ( ).—

EMILY: But, Mother Gibbs, one can go ( ); one can go back ( ) again... into living. I ( ) it. I know it. Just then for a ( ) I was thinking about... about the farm... and for a minute I was there, and my ( ) was on my lap as ( ) as day.

MRS. GIBBS: Yes, dear, of ( ) you can.

EMILY: I can go back there and ( ) all those days over again... ( ) not?

MRS. GIBBS: All I can say is, Emily, don't.

EMILY: But it's true, isn't it? I can go and ( )... back there... again.

STAGE MANAGER: Yes, some have ( )—but they soon come back here.

MRS. GIBBS: Don't do it, Emily.

MRS. SOAMES: Emily, don't. It's not what you ( ) it would be.

EMILY: But I won't live over a sad day. I'll choose a happy one—I’ll choose the day I first knew that I loved George.