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| Written by | Amy Lowell and Robert Frost |
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Checked is a play written by Amy Lowell and Robert Frost.
Characters edit
- RUTH
- MAGGIE
- JUNE
Synopsis, Plot and Dialogues edit
JUNE: With a houseful of hungry men to feed MAGGIE: Folks don't walk miles an' miles in the drifted snow with no hat nor wrap on 'em if everythin's all right, I guess.MAGGIE: What should I do?
RUTH: I'm goin' to put an end to it right now.MAGGIE: I tried to make him RUTH: An' your kisses-MAGGIE: But he was terrible taciturn, Ed was.MAGGIE: Then the quiet 'ud commence rushin' past my ears till I most went mad listenin' to it.RUTH: It's MAGGIE: He used to go sleddin' and skatin', an every day his father fetched him to school in the pung an' brought him back again.MAGGIE: We had a terrible spell o' stormy weather, an' the snow lay so thick JUNE: She had to lie and hear love things made dreadful by his shouts in the night.JUNE: He'd shout and scream MAGGIE: Ther warn't a hump or a holler fer as you could see.MAGGIE: Who he'd seen an' what he'd done.MAGGIE: All of a sudden it come-JUNE: Other folks have to-why shouldn't I?MAGGIE: -I don't know what, but I jest couldn't stand no more!RUTH: Keep away, Jake!JUNE: I almost think if I could do like you, drop everything and live out on the ground-RUTH: You can kill me tomorrow if you like, but I'm goin' to have my say!JUNE: -but it might be, come night, I shouldn't like it.MAGGIE: I can't see nothin' else afore me!RUTH: Mebbe if he'd be'n lately, I shouldn't have told you.