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 ( ).