1912 CHARACTERS PETER DALE, Plant-Breeder . MANA, [Footnote: 1Kb ] Pronouned: Mah-na. His Daughter . MARK FREEMAN, His Assistant . MRS. HENSHAWE. JULIAN, Her Son: of the State Senate . ROSALIE, a Child . REV. IGNATIUS SPOFFORD. PROF. RAEBURN, Biologist: of the State University . WESTGATE, Lumberman . MISS WINCH, Reporter . A CHAUFFEUR. A TRAINED NURSE. Mexican and Japanese Laborers. SCENES ACT I. — Peter Dale's garden, in northern California; afternoon . ACT II. — Among the cypresses, on the Pacific coast; evening and night . ACT III. — The garden again; late afternoon of the next day . ACT FIRST The garden of PETER DALE, in northern California. On the right is visible the end of a greenhouse, beside which vines are growing. Through the open door are seen tables, reaching beyond sight; on these are low boxes filed with seedling plants. Around the corner of the greenhouse, up scene, a path leads to a gate, beyond view, and a roadway, also unseen but indicated by its border of tall eucalyptus trees, in the right background . The groundplan of the scene is filled with beds of bright flowers — poppies, amaryllis, and other varied species — through which a broad central path leads back to another which crosses it in the middleground; this is bordered behind by tall cactus plants in bloom, and here the central path ends. Beyond the cactus bed, an orchard of young fruit trees stretches green toward dull-golden mountains and bright azure sky. The immediate foreground is a wide path which divides, on the left, around the circle of a pool, with lilies. Beside the broad, cement margin of this pool, a curved bench stands beneath ilex trees. Behind this bench the path leads off, left . It is early afternoon. Shimmering sunlight intensifies the colors of the flowers. Midway the central path, the still figure of PETER DALE stands contemplating. He is dressed in a gray swallow-tail suit of antedated style. Under a wide palm-leaf, Chinese hat, pointed at the crown, his short, white hair accentuates the ruddy sunburn of his shaven face and fine-cut features. With both hands folded over a large blank-book, he gazes, in quizzical quiet, at a flower beside him. From nearby, on the right, the thin, sweet voice of a child is heard lilting to an improvised melody: Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 48 chars . PETER turns toward the sound, with a pensive smile,over which comes a shade of sadness; then, turning again to the flower, he takes from, his pocket a piece of white string, squats on one heel in the path, and ties the string to the plant's stalk, jotting a note in his book with a pencil . Contains 25 words in 2 sentences using 118 chars . Around the corner of the greenhouse, the tall, spare form of MARK FREEMAN comes slowly striding. He is a young man, about twenty-five, powerful m build, sinewy like a mountaineer. His strong face is sun-tanned; his brown arms are bare below the rolled sleeves of a red shirt thrust into hand trousers. On his shoulders — with one hand clutching a starfish, the other MARK'S collar — a little girl rides pig-a-back, her bright curls fluttering close to his tumbled, dark hair. Arriving in the foreground , MARK swings the child down upon her feet by the greenhouse door, against which he places her empty hand. Feeling the door-frame and the vines with a quick touch, she stands a moment, groping, while MARK gazes down at her. Then confidently she walks, with outstretched hands — MARK following her — to the edge of the pool, where she sits and plays with the starfish. By her actions it is evident that she cannot see . PETER rises, and the two men look at the child with tenderness . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Without looking up Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . [PETER leads MARK toward the flower, and points to the white string . MARK ejaculates with pleasure Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 11 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 42 chars . Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 23 chars . At the pool , ROSALIE dips the starfish in and out of the water, lilting to her rhythmic motion Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 52 chars . Examining the poppy with MARK.] Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars . Haltingly Contains 22 words in 2 sentences using 128 chars . Calling Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 20 chars . Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 44 chars . Contains 36 words in 4 sentences using 176 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 52 chars . Contains 21 words in 3 sentences using 96 chars . He sits on the bench . ROSALIE jumps to her feet and reaches toward him Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . Taking her outstretched hands , PETER nestles her to him Cosily Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 60 chars . [ROSALIE nods Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 119 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Contains 60 words in 6 sentences using 344 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 56 chars . Contains 19 words in 2 sentences using 99 chars . Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars . Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 58 chars . Contains 34 words in 1 sentence using 193 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 12 words in 4 sentences using 64 chars . Contains 17 words in 3 sentences using 70 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 65 chars . Contains 19 words in 2 sentences using 109 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars . Contains 37 words in 2 sentences using 178 chars . [PETER rises and takes ROSALIE by the hand Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 46 chars . He begins to lead her up the central path Contains 29 words in 1 sentence using 151 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Contains 32 words in 2 sentences using 169 chars . Pulling loose from PETER'S hand Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . She moves lightly ahead of him, with outstretched hands Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 36 chars . Along the middleground path, she goes off, left, through the flowers, humming to herself: Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Following the child, looks back with a quaint smile Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 83 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 38 chars . Pausing , PETER looks back at MARK, with kindly scrutiny Contains 26 words in 3 sentences using 132 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars . Looking again in MARK'S face, with friendly gaze Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . They clasp hands Contains 20 words in 2 sentences using 93 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . [PETER turns away, left. Glancing affectionately toward MARK, and shaking his own left hand playfully with his right, he goes off . MARK, taking a pronged iron from beside the greenhouse, begins to follow him, but stops at the head of the central path to look at a bed of seedling cacti. Here, with his back turned, he stoops down and begins to uproot the seedlings with the iron prong. From the right is heard the click and closing of a gate, and soon, along the middleground path, there enters a man of about thirty-five, simply dressed in gray, with a straw Panama hat. He is quiet-mannered, and wears glasses, behind which his eyes twinkle pleasantly. He is about to pass MARK, but looking closer, touches him on the shoulder Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Looking up , MARK gets to his feet with a smile Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 40 chars . Shaking MARK'S hand Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 47 chars . Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 65 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 19 words in 3 sentences using 106 chars . Contains 30 words in 3 sentences using 165 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 36 words in 4 sentences using 173 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Contains 41 words in 5 sentences using 201 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . Contains 24 words in 2 sentences using 125 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . Contains 34 words in 2 sentences using 177 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 47 words in 1 sentence using 267 chars . Thoughtfully Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Touching with his prong the starfish on the ground, murmurs aloud Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars . More to himself than to MARK.] Contains 20 words in 1 sentence using 97 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Contains 66 words in 8 sentences using 340 chars . Contains 41 words in 2 sentences using 237 chars . Along the middleground path, left , ROSALIE enters, and passes — groping with outreached hands — behind the greenhouse . RAEBURN watches her curiously, and turns to MARK.] Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . With a gesture Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 73 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 18 words in 3 sentences using 89 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 37 words in 4 sentences using 178 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 63 chars . By the greenhouse path enter two men. One, of middle height, vividly handsome, restless in gesture, of about forty years, is dressed elegantly in riding clothes and carries a short whip. The other, stocky, sun-burned, about fifty, is dressed plainly and smokes a cigar. The older man, walking close in front of the younger and unconsciously retarding his steps, is speaking earnestly, in a downright, uneducated manner Contains 25 words in 4 sentences using 140 chars . Politely Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 46 words in 4 sentences using 213 chars . Nodding approval Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars . Contains 67 words in 6 sentences using 325 chars . Trying deftly to pass WESTGATE on the path Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Buttonholing him Contains 98 words in 10 sentences using 473 chars . Visibly bored, but still affable Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars . Contains 36 words in 4 sentences using 200 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 38 words in 5 sentences using 191 chars . Having spoken aside with MARK, approaches Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars . Turning cordially Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars . Contains 17 words in 2 sentences using 95 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 25 words in 1 sentence using 167 chars . Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 16 chars . Contains 28 words in 1 sentence using 171 chars . Winking at JULIAN.] Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 45 chars . To RAEBURN.] Contains 20 words in 2 sentences using 125 chars . Contains 17 words in 1 sentence using 102 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 19 words in 1 sentence using 108 chars . Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 45 chars . Contains 38 words in 3 sentences using 243 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 7 chars . He pauses a moment, playing with his whip Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 66 chars . Contains 51 words in 3 sentences using 298 chars . Contains 17 words in 1 sentence using 89 chars . He starts to leave Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 45 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 65 chars . Speaking to MARK.] Contains 8 words in 3 sentences using 39 chars . With a leisurely glance at JULIAN, points off left Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 22 chars . [JULIAN moves quickly away . RAEBURN follows him a few steps Contains 22 words in 3 sentences using 126 chars . Pausing rigidly, speaks low and constrained Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 10 chars . Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 94 chars . Flicking off a cactus flower with his whip Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . He goes quickly off, left Taken aback Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . He takes off his glasses and dusts them, glancing oddly at MARK.] Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 63 chars . Slowly, returning RAEBURN'S look Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Readjusting his glasses on his nose Contains 10 words in 3 sentences using 42 chars . He starts up the greenhouse path Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 44 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars . He goes out, right Puffing his cigar, stares after him Contains 26 words in 4 sentences using 150 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars . Sitting on an inverted seed-box in the path , MARK is working at the cactus bed . WESTGATE saunters over and stands behind him, where he speaks with crisp good-nature to MARK, who barely murmurs his replies, being intent on his work Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars . Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars . Contains 34 words in 4 sentences using 171 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars . Peering over MARK'S shoulder Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 60 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Contains 17 words in 2 sentences using 99 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars . Viewing MARK'S imperturbable back Contains 19 words in 3 sentences using 80 chars . [WESTGATE strolls up the greenhouse path, and disappears. Without looking up , MARK continues his weeding. Through the greenhouse door , MANA DALE springs into the garden, half running — her arms filled with brilliant chaparral. She is hatless, and sun-browned: a strong girl, in her early twenties, free and joyous in her bearing. She is dressed for horseback. Approaching behind MARK, she tosses over him the mass of wild-flowers and grasses Starting up Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 44 chars . Quizzically Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Contains 51 words in 4 sentences using 279 chars . Watching her with happy admiration Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . Contains 23 words in 3 sentences using 136 chars . With a quiet laugh Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 60 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 56 chars . Contains 1 word in 2 sentences using 6 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 22 words in 3 sentences using 105 chars . Tucking a spray in MARK'S shirt Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Thoughtfully Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars . Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 95 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . She seizes up a vermilion plume from the chaparral, and sways it to her gesture Contains 23 words in 2 sentences using 127 chars . From her outreached hand she flings the plume, and stands with flashing eyes Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars . Starting Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 48 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 30 chars . Slow and earnest Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . With sudden introspection, half fearful, as if checking her thoughts Contains 26 words in 3 sentences using 121 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 73 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars . Absently Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 18 chars . She sits on the box in the path, trying to focus her thoughts . MARK looks at her curiously Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars . [MARK sits on the ground beside her. She puts one hand amid his tumbled hair. Throughout their scene together, by her instinctive actions and looks, more than by her words, it is evident that she feels for MARK deep trust and affection Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Contains 18 words in 1 sentence using 102 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . With a laugh Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 81 chars . Smiling Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars . Contains 19 words in 3 sentences using 116 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars . Growing pensive again Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 70 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 41 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 28 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Closing her eyes Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 32 words in 2 sentences using 166 chars . Murmurs Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 29 words in 3 sentences using 140 chars . [MANA touches his arm, as if to interrupt, then speaks low Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 6 chars . Contains 38 words in 2 sentences using 188 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars . Contains 22 words in 2 sentences using 113 chars . Starting up Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Anxiously Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 20 words in 2 sentences using 89 chars . Rising slowly Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . After a pause, deeply Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Breathing quick Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 17 chars . [MANA nods; then cries out, impetuously Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 22 chars . She moves toward MARK, naïve, confiding. He extends his hand, abrupt, unconsciously holding her off. She takes it, bewildered Pressing her hand Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . He turns away, dazed by deep emotions of which he is himself unaware. From the path he lifts the iron prong. Bending it slowly in his tightened hands, he flings it heavily from him Wonderingly Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Contains 10 words in 3 sentences using 51 chars . Contains 20 words in 4 sentences using 106 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars . Puzzled Contains 10 words in 3 sentences using 53 chars . Painfully Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 52 chars . Wistfully Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars . Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 23 chars . Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 97 chars . Taking her in his arms, kisses her tenderly Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Looking at him affectionately Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 50 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . Listening, like a doctor for a heart-beat Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 43 chars . [MANA raps his chest with her knuckles. The spray of verbena falls from MARK'S shirt to the path Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars . With a mysterious smile Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 15 words in 3 sentences using 77 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 49 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 26 words in 2 sentences using 120 chars . With a puzzled smile Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Outside, right, the voice of ROSALIE calls: "Mana! Where are you? Mana!" MANA listens Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 28 chars . Hand in hand , MANA and MARK go round the greenhouse. From the left, on the middleground path, enter PETER and JULIAN. PETER walks slowly, whittling a piece of bamboo . JULIAN slackens his pace to PETER'S, visibly controlling a restless nervousness Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 16 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 62 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 11 words in 3 sentences using 63 chars . Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 17 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 43 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars . Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 46 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 47 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 68 chars . Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 118 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 45 chars . Fidgeting Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 42 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Contains 24 words in 5 sentences using 106 chars . Sitting on the bench , PETER goes on whittling for a moment; then he hands to JULIAN the piece of bamboo Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 62 chars . Starts to do so, but stops, glancing sharply at PETER.] Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 59 chars . He reaches for it; JULIAN hands it to him Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Looking through it with one eye, he points it upward and about in various directions Contains 44 words in 2 sentences using 232 chars . Chafing Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars . Quiet and intense Contains 32 words in 2 sentences using 154 chars . Starting Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 52 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 45 chars . Controlling himself Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars . Darkly Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . [PETER resumes his whittling Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 66 chars . Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 60 chars . Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 9 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 42 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 60 chars . Wincing Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 28 chars . Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 27 chars . Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 23 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 38 chars . Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 95 chars . Startled Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 52 chars . In lowered voice Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . [PETER nods, whittling Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 25 chars . Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 16 chars . Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 94 chars . Contains 33 words in 3 sentences using 174 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 11 words in 3 sentences using 50 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 61 chars . Contains 22 words in 4 sentences using 92 chars . Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 52 chars . With a moan of relief Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars . Putting his hand on JULIAN'S shoulder Contains 29 words in 3 sentences using 133 chars . He turns away Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 37 words in 5 sentences using 180 chars . Darting a keen glance Contains 11 words in 3 sentences using 54 chars . Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 82 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 34 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 62 chars . With a faint show of cheerfulness Contains 20 words in 2 sentences using 107 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars . He flushes, with contracting brows Contains 19 words in 1 sentence using 95 chars . With a terrible look Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 13 chars . Stiffening Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars . Clutching the bamboo in both hands , PETER looks hard at it, controlling himself. Then, putting it slowly in his pocket, he points right Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 27 chars . Moving a few steps, he pauses Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 32 chars . He follows PETER, and cries out Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars . With deliberation Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 65 chars . [PETER turns up the central path. After a moment , JULIAN goes right, pausing by the greenhouse door Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 45 chars . Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 43 chars . [JULIAN goes into the greenhouse . PETER goes slowly left, along the middleground path. On the same path, right , MANA enters. Seeing PETER, her face lights up, and she approaches softly behind him Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Turning toward her Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars . He goes to her and takes her extended hands With eager happiness Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Looking deep in her eyes Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 50 chars . Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Quickly Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 32 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars . Slowly, her face clouding deeply Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 64 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . He turns away . MANA'S face suddenly lights again. She goes to him fondly Contains 35 words in 7 sentences using 150 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . He puts one arm about her, and points to the garden Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 54 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 128 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars . Contains 84 words in 4 sentences using 431 chars . Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 58 chars . Contains 30 words in 2 sentences using 152 chars . Kissing him Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 102 chars . Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 80 chars . Pinching her cheek Contains 33 words in 2 sentences using 138 chars . Looking at the flowers, he bends over the one with the white string Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars . Contains 23 words in 3 sentences using 106 chars . Smiling Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 26 words in 3 sentences using 131 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars . Contains 31 words in 1 sentence using 162 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 66 chars . Contains 36 words in 4 sentences using 176 chars . He starts away Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 47 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Pausing, he watches something in the air; then catches it quickly with his hand, murmuring to himself: Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Coming near Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Opens his hand, revealing a white, downy filament Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 44 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . He puts it in his pocket, murmuring aloud: Contains 28 words in 3 sentences using 132 chars . He goes out, left . MANA comes slowly down to the pool, sees the starfish, looks down at it pensively, touching it with her foot, and reaching upward her arms in unconscious longing. From the right ROSALIE enters, with flowers. She comes toward the pool, humming low. Hearing her , MANA turns Contains 20 words in 1 sentence using 98 chars . Running to meet her Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . Laughing, she lifts ROSALIE'S face, kissing it; then leads her to the bench Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Contains 24 words in 3 sentences using 123 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars . Contains 25 words in 3 sentences using 129 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Sorting them Contains 28 words in 1 sentence using 172 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 41 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . Looking in the child's sightless eyes , MANA hesitates and her face quivers. Bending down, she kisses her Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Then, assuming a quaint cheerfulness, she speaks, confidentially Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 30 chars . Contains 11 words in 3 sentences using 58 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars . Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 30 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 72 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 69 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 49 chars . After a slight pause Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars . Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 74 chars . Slowly Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 41 chars . Picking it up, gives it to her Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 61 chars . Kneeling down beside her Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 45 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . [JULIAN enters from the greenhouse. Not yet seeing him , MANA puts her arms around the child and speaks low Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Tensely, coming forward Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Springing up at his voice Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 73 chars . Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 57 chars . Starting Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars . Glancing at ROSALIE, MANA motions silence to him, and draws him away. Outside, right, an automobile horn is heard Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Gently Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars . Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 13 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Coming to her Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . He lifts her and kisses her fondly As he puts her down Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars . Smiling Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 27 chars . [ROSALIE turns away to the bench, fingering her wildflowers, which she smells of, one by one As if playfully, to MANA.] Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Gently, looking in his face Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars . Clouding Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Quickly Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Controlling emotion Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 42 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 56 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Calling, and holding out a flower Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars . Glancing toward the child, speaks to MANA.] Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 59 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars . Contains 33 words in 4 sentences using 147 chars . Coming toward them Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . He stoops to lift a spray of verbena from, the path Pouting Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . [MANA starts to go out. In front of her , JULIAN holds out the spray of verbena. With a brilliant smile, he looks in her eyes Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 58 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Contains 11 words in 3 sentences using 44 chars . He reaches for her hand Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars . Offering the spray for her to put in his coat, he is about to kiss her Drawing shyly away, waves to him, with a smile Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . She goes off, round the greenhouse . JULIAN stands looking after her. Outside the click of the gate is heard Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . [JULIAN closes his eyes, as in sudden pain. Holding in one hand her starfish , ROSALIE gropes with the other and twitches his coat Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 30 chars . Turning quickly Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars . He leads her by the hand into the greenhouse. Outside, is heard the querulous, slightly husky voice of a woman, calling: "Ignatius! Ignatius!" Soon after, on the greenhouse path , MRS. HENSHAWE enters. She is a woman past sixty, of handsome features, penetrating eyes and forceful presence, but dowdy in dress, and fidgety in her slow movements. Her outward appearance conveys a crass contrast of qualities. She wears a dull-colored gown, beneath a duster of ample dimensions. On her head is an ultrafashionable hat, swathed in a light-green automobile veil, and in her white-gloved hand is a purple parasol. Close behind her follows a small, trig, business-like woman of about thirty, with twinkling eyes: MISS WINCH. She also is dressed for automobiling, but in plain, practical garb. In her hands she holds a small camera, which she is focusing upon MRS. HENSHAWE.] Muttering audibly Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 62 chars . Cheerily Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Turning portentously to stare at her Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars . Clicking her kodak Contains 41 words in 5 sentences using 259 chars . She laughs pleasantly Gasping Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . She sinks into a garden chair, near the greenhouse . MISS WINCH, tucking the kodak under her arm, takes a small pad from her hat, and a pencil from her glove Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars . [MRS. HENSHAWE moves the open parasol between them, raises her voice, and calls: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Muttering again Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 72 chars . Writing on her pad Contains 13 words in 4 sentences using 78 chars . Peering round the parasol Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Closing the parasol , MRS. HENSHAWE looks at her with dumb reproof . MISS WINCH bites her lip Contains 20 words in 3 sentences using 95 chars . Rising Contains 20 words in 2 sentences using 111 chars . Crossing to the bench, she calls again: Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Following her Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 68 chars . Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 105 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 43 chars . Contains 52 words in 3 sentences using 236 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 49 chars . [MRS. HENSHAWE turns to speak, but closes her lips again grimly Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Contains 16 words in 3 sentences using 75 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 27 words in 5 sentences using 139 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Rising, flustered Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Enter, right, on the middleground path , RAEBURN and MARK. MARK is pushing a wheelbarrow, with a shovel in it. They stop by the cactus bed Earnestly, to RAEBURN.] Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Glancing toward the men, speaks to MRS. HENSHAWE.] Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . From the greenhouse , MANA enters. She wears a felt hat and carries a short whip. Seeing MRS. HENSHAWE, she comes forward graciously Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 19 chars . With open arms Contains 8 words in 3 sentences using 46 chars . She embraces MANA, with cordial ejaculations, while MISS WINCH, at one side, points the camera . RAEBURN, indicating the three women, speaks to MARK.] Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 69 chars . Glancing Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . He begins to shovel the weeded cacti into his wheelbarrow. Leaving him , RAEBURN passes along the middleground path and goes out, left To MRS. HENSHAWE.] Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars . Catching sight of MISS WINCH, who clicks the camera , MANA checks herself, and bows slightly Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 22 chars . Contains 40 words in 5 sentences using 195 chars . With a smile Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars . She goes off by the greenhouse path Starting after her Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Then turning, with a wreath of smiles, to MANA.] Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 54 chars . Simply Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 62 chars . Contains 16 words in 3 sentences using 79 chars . With increasing reserve Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 22 chars . Contains 83 words in 5 sentences using 401 chars . Uneasily Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 92 words in 11 sentences using 461 chars . Retreating Contains 16 words in 3 sentences using 76 chars . Contains 20 words in 5 sentences using 113 chars . She pauses in consternation . MANA, going out, right, has smiled and tossed a kiss to MARK in the background. Beholding it , MRS. HENSHAWE stands open-mouthed Contains 6 words in 3 sentences using 36 chars . Sitting on the bench, she leans sidewise and squints at MARK, who is at work. Then, opening and raising her parasol, she rises and walks toward him, up the central path. Here she hems in her throat, and speaks with distinct affability Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . At her voice , MARK drops his wheelbarrow precipitately and moves off Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . He goes out, left . MRS. HENSHAWE follows as far as the cross path and peers after him. Enter, from the greenhouse , JULIAN and a plump, elderly, clerical gentleman, earnest and urbane: MR. SPOFFORD.] Contains 33 words in 4 sentences using 191 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 63 chars . Contains 31 words in 3 sentences using 174 chars . Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 77 chars . Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 90 chars . Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 68 chars . Contains 7 words in 3 sentences using 40 chars . Contains 21 words in 3 sentences using 112 chars . Starting back Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 19 chars . Contains 26 words in 5 sentences using 127 chars . Approaching from the middle ground Contains 19 words in 4 sentences using 118 chars . Pacing to and fro Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars . Contains 19 words in 4 sentences using 111 chars . [SPOFFORD starts uneasily Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 69 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Bristling Contains 17 words in 3 sentences using 80 chars . Morosely Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 29 words in 3 sentences using 140 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 40 words in 4 sentences using 195 chars . Turning away, bitterly Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 7 chars . With reproof Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars . Glancing toward the cactus bed Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 76 chars . With effusion she greets MANA, who enters from the greenhouse Also greeting her Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . Kissing her hand Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . With repressed excitement Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars . Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . He takes her riding whip, and starts to go, right. In the left middle ground , MARK reënters Uneasily Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars . Quietly Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . To SPOFFORD.] Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . To MANA.] Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . With excitement Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . [MRS. HENSHAWE gasps, and hurries, gesticulating, to SPOFFORD.] To JULIAN.] Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 8 words in 3 sentences using 37 chars . Contains 30 words in 3 sentences using 163 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 41 chars . He is drawing her away. They are entering the greenhouse . SPOFFORD puts aside MRS. HENSHAWE, who is trying to whisper to him, and speaks with perturbed command Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 59 chars . With sudden coolness Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars . With set face he returns. After a pause, he speaks huskily Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Very low Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 43 chars . With ineffectual gestures Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars . Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 98 chars . With supplication Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Very gently Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Awe-struck Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 15 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars . Contains 45 words in 4 sentences using 206 chars . To MANA.] Contains 19 words in 1 sentence using 88 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Sinking on to the bench, in tears Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 33 words in 3 sentences using 179 chars . Embarrassed Contains 26 words in 2 sentences using 149 chars . Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 34 chars . Contains 20 words in 3 sentences using 97 chars . Springing to her side Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 24 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 69 chars . Going with her Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . They go out. As they go , MARK — from the middleground — comes slowly forward Intensely Contains 8 words in 3 sentences using 38 chars . Rising, in great agitation Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 18 words in 4 sentences using 101 chars . Shrilly Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 59 chars . She hurries off, along the greenhouse path . SPOFFORD starts to follow her. As he passes the central path , MARK steps abruptly in his way Trying to pass Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Tensely Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 43 chars . Contains 8 words in 3 sentences using 36 chars . Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 13 chars . Avoiding MARK'S eye Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars . Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 21 chars . Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 28 chars . Slowly Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 25 chars . Breathing hard Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 47 chars . Looks in MARK'S quivering face Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 66 chars . He whispers an instant to MARK, whose flushed face sets pale and hard Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . Hurrying past him up the path, glances backward in fear Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . He disappears. The gate clicks . MARK stands with closed eyes and clenched hands. Outside, right, the clatter of horses' hoofs sounds harsh on the stone court, then muffled on the roadway. Meantime, in the left middleground , PETER DALE enters quietly. Hearing the hoofs , MARK starts, and runs up the central path, meeting PETER. There, clutching PETER'S arm, he points along the row of eucalyptus trees, staring. The sound of galloping grows fainter in the distance . CURTAIN. ACT SECOND Among the cypresses on the California coast. A cliff, overlooking the sea. The scene is sparsely overshadowed by somber wraiths of trees: writhing boughs and contorted skeleton trunks, twisted slantwise from the shore, from which the stricken grove seems to be fleeing in rooted frenzy. Through the dun-green foliage and stark gray silhouettes, the setting sun reddens the purple Pacific between fog-banks. On the left, a jutting elevation of the cliff rises above the scene's level, and scrambles in sharp, rocky heaps beyond sight, leaving a rough-sided stone niche, on the ground level, shut off from the sea and the winds. By this stands a boulder; nearby, lies the log of a fallen tree. On the right, clutched and half concealed by the cypresses, the porch and squat roof of a small bungalow blend with the surroundings . From the left enters a woman, wearing a gray automobile veil. She is followed, with quick steps, by a man dressed in a chauffeur's uniform. The woman looks about her furtively; goes to the porch and tries the door; then peers through a slit in the shade-drawn window. The woman is MISS WINCH. Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars . Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 56 chars . Points off right Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 50 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 60 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 64 chars . She blows softly a little whistle attached to her watch chain Contains 27 words in 3 sentences using 138 chars . Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 5 chars . He goes out. The woman stands a moment, looking off left; then she moves quickly toward the bungalow, and disappears behind it. Enter, left , MANA and JULIAN. MANA'S face is vaguely troubled. She walks close to JULIAN, who appears rather to lead than to accompany her. Restively she turns her head, glancing from tree to tree Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 40 chars . In a low voice Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . [MANA points — with a gesture at once fascinated and repelled — toward the trees Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 49 chars . With a laugh Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars . Contains 36 words in 4 sentences using 194 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 23 words in 2 sentences using 130 chars . Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 61 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 38 chars . Contains 19 words in 1 sentence using 99 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Taking her arm, leads her nearer the bungalow Contains 23 words in 2 sentences using 142 chars . Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 68 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 34 chars . He points; she gazes a moment, without speaking. He shows his disappointment Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Murmurs Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Softly Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . With sinking voice Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Going to the porch, he unlocks the door Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 25 chars . Looking back at the cypresses Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . They go within and disappear. After a brief pause , MARK enters from the left. He is heated with riding, and covered with dust. Going hastily toward the bungalow, he pauses near the door, gazing in. Slowly then he moves off, right, and disappears among the trees, as JULIAN and MANA come out again Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 46 chars . Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 79 chars . With embarrassment Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . [MANA steals away from the house. He follows anxiously Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 27 words in 3 sentences using 131 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 47 chars . Playfully assuming a terrible aspect Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 23 chars . Laughing, he seizes her Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Draws away fearfully Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Discomfited Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 61 chars . Gazing about her Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 45 chars . Growing gloomy Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars . Moving farther away Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 44 chars . Pensively Contains 21 words in 3 sentences using 95 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 65 chars . Contains 12 words in 3 sentences using 72 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 7 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . She pauses uneasily Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Startled Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 20 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 50 chars . Looking at the ground and shifting his feet Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . He is silent for a moment; then glancing up, he is about to speak, when MANA continues pensively Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 59 chars . Nervously Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 7 chars . Contains 18 words in 1 sentence using 93 chars . Contains 12 words in 1 sentence using 56 chars . Contains 84 words in 5 sentences using 448 chars . With a smile Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 31 chars . Contains 50 words in 5 sentences using 257 chars . Passionately Contains 10 words in 3 sentences using 51 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . She sits on the fallen log Contains 12 words in 3 sentences using 53 chars . Simply Contains 55 words in 4 sentences using 316 chars . Mutters low Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Oblivious Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 49 chars . In a flat voice Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars . Starting from her thoughts Contains 49 words in 5 sentences using 232 chars . Sitting beside her, looks close in her face Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars . Smiling faintly Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars . Fervently Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars . Contains 16 words in 1 sentence using 93 chars . Low and fascinated Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Contains 16 words in 3 sentences using 79 chars . Eluding his embrace, rises Contains 24 words in 3 sentences using 123 chars . With a glad cry, she looks up through the boughs Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 25 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Mysteriously, pointing Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Looking upward Contains 26 words in 3 sentences using 120 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . With a happy sigh Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 71 words in 8 sentences using 366 chars . Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 53 chars . Shaking her head Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 43 chars . Moving away Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 10 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 53 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 20 words in 3 sentences using 95 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 73 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars . [JULIAN goes into the bungalow . MANA, stooping down, begins to gather wood on the ground, humming to herself. The scene grows dimmer in the twilight Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Visibly a tranquil reverie steals over her. Laying an armful of the gathered dead wood near the rocky niche, she stands — with her back to the boulder — looking under the boughs toward the paling sunset. Silently where she is gazing the shadowy figure of MARK emerges and stands silhouetted . MANA'S lips part, and she reaches one hand toward him. Thus, motionless, they stand gazing at each other — shadow confronting shadow. Only the sound of the sea is faintly heard. Suddenly the voice of JULIAN snaps the silence Coming from the house, holds up a little box Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . For an instant , MANA moves her hand across her eyes, but does not turn. As quickly the form of MARK disappears. She gazes again . JULIAN speaks lower Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . [MANA seems not to hear. She moves again slowly to gather boughs, and resumes her humming. In the quiet pause , JULIAN watches her, fascinated, where she bends in the dusk, rapt in a kind of happy reverie. He murmurs to himself Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Humming Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 28 chars . Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 66 chars . Oblivious Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 34 chars . Approaching her Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Handing him an armful of dead branches Contains 7 words in 3 sentences using 41 chars . Stops abruptly, looking at her. Then, after a pause, speaks Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Starting Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . Puzzled Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . He turns quickly and carries the branches behind the rock, beyond sight . MANA follows and, standing by the boulder, speaks to him behind it Contains 18 words in 4 sentences using 89 chars . Humming Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 38 chars . Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 79 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 91 chars . Coming from behind the rock Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Contains 10 words in 3 sentences using 48 chars . Contains 12 words in 3 sentences using 60 chars . Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars . Springing lightly toward the bungalow, she calls back Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Starting again, eyes her keenly Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Speaking slowly, while his face darkens Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Not hearing the last, speaks from the porch Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . She goes indoors . JULIAN stands a moment, looking after her. Within the house a match is struck, and soon candle-light shines through the open door . JULIAN'S face grows darker with feeling; and he murmurs harshly Contains 5 words in 3 sentences using 30 chars . He turns slowly and, gathering up more fuel, moves behind the rock. In a moment his stooping shadow is cast, by a flickering glow, across the scene. The glow increases, and smoke drifts upward along the stony ridges on the left. On the right , MARK enters from the cypresses, and stands gaunt in the firelight. Deliberately, he crosses toward the rock, and pauses near it. Suddenly the stooped shadow of JULIAN lengthens to full height, and his voice comes sharp from behind the rock Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Quietly Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Coming from behind the rock Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 66 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 88 chars . Still more quiet Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 36 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 10 words in 3 sentences using 48 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars . Moving, in agitation Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 66 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 35 words in 4 sentences using 172 chars . Contains 17 words in 3 sentences using 91 chars . He turns, and moves toward the bungalow . JULIAN follows him feverishly Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 10 words in 4 sentences using 52 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . He moves on With sudden intensity, causing MARK to pause Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Then slowly Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 51 chars . Harshly Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 18 words in 4 sentences using 78 chars . Keenly Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . He moves on again Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 28 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 32 chars . From within the house , MANA'S voice calls: "Julian!"] Contains 12 words in 3 sentences using 50 chars . Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars . Contains 13 words in 3 sentences using 57 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 27 words in 5 sentences using 141 chars . With a scorching look Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . He turns to go into the house . JULIAN gets in his way Feverishly Contains 42 words in 8 sentences using 168 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars . Painfully Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars . Calls from within Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Wildly Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 23 chars . Slowly Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars . He disappears in the darkness, left . JULIAN moves out of the fire's glow into the obscurity of the background, where his form, indistinctly visible, paces back and forth against the pale sea-line . From the bungalow , MANA reappears, carrying in her hand a covered basket. She comes lightly from the porch toward the fire, still humming to herself Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars . Contains 30 words in 5 sentences using 145 chars . Huskily Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars . She lifts it from the basket Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars . Approaching , JULIAN looks at her, trembling; takes the doll in his hand, then lets it fall to the ground Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Stooping to lift it, looks up suddenly as JULIAN turns away with a moaning sound Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Shuddering Contains 17 words in 4 sentences using 98 chars . Going to him Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Wildly, pointing at the cypresses Contains 31 words in 1 sentence using 181 chars . Contains 15 words in 3 sentences using 90 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars . Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars . Contains 13 words in 3 sentences using 65 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 66 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 52 words in 3 sentences using 257 chars . [MANA holds out the doll Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Takes it again, stares at it blankly, then looks closer Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 77 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Agonized Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 64 chars . He flings the doll into the darkness Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Contains 23 words in 4 sentences using 91 chars . Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 17 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 6 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . He pauses Gently Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 30 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Pointing toward the bungalow Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 53 chars . He buries his face Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 21 words in 3 sentences using 105 chars . His voice breaks Pitifully Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Looking in MANA'S face, he reaches for her hand, with a cry Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Caressing his hand Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 21 words in 5 sentences using 106 chars . Gently Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Controlling himself Contains 25 words in 3 sentences using 137 chars . Murmurs Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 7 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 43 chars . Faintly Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Very slowly Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 73 chars . With deep pity Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Staring at her Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . He grasps MANA'S arm — his features twitching — and speaks huskily Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 57 chars . With bowed head, he sinks upon the ground, clinging to MANA'S knees. She caresses his forehead Contains 20 words in 4 sentences using 104 chars . Hysterically Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars . Gently Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 23 words in 4 sentences using 100 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Growing more hysterical Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 61 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 70 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 98 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 16 words in 3 sentences using 83 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 50 words in 7 sentences using 221 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 49 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 32 words in 5 sentences using 153 chars . Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 78 chars . Wildly Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 15 words in 4 sentences using 78 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 35 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 63 chars . Appealingly Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 13 chars . Contains 10 words in 3 sentences using 62 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars . Growing wilder Contains 25 words in 2 sentences using 122 chars . Breathing quicker Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars . Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 54 chars . Drawing away from him, appalled Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 26 chars . They gaze for a moment in each other's eyes — fearfully . JULIAN'S eyes fall. He reaches toward her Contains 13 words in 4 sentences using 58 chars . With an anguished cry Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Clinging to her, hysterically Contains 40 words in 9 sentences using 166 chars . Tearing herself from him Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . She rushes into the bungalow, closing the door . JULIAN stands for an instant, dazed, swaying, muttering: "Mana, Mana, no!" Then, recovering himself, he staggers after her. As he reaches the porch, the candle-light from the window is obscured by a shadow, which emerges from behind the porch pillar. Before him stands MARK who has entered from the darkness beyond . JULIAN pauses and draws back, breathing hard. Then he speaks huskily Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 27 chars . Stepping toward him Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Seizing JULIAN with both arms, he lifts him bodily, with a mighty clutch, and bears him into the middleground. Here the two forms sway in the firelight, now flickering from its embers. Partly freeing himself , JULIAN cries out, struggling for release Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Gagging him with one hand , MARK twists backward JULIAN'S torse, and forces him backward, writhing, beyond the glow of the fire. At JULIAN'S cry, the door has opened, and MANA looks forth, straining to see Groping outward Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Silently the forms wrestle backward. On the dim verge of the cliff they pause, panting. There, with a sudden jerk, one is flung outward, falling, and disappears with a quivering cry Calls, in fear Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Stumbling toward the cliff, she confronts the tall form of MARK, moving into the firelight Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 17 chars . With a smothered, half-joyful sound, she runs to him, crouching close, as for protection Looking down at her Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Faintly Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Points toward the cliff Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 43 chars . Drawing back Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 27 chars . Slowly, staring ahead of him Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . With a low, moaned cry , MANA sinks on the ground, cowering. The fire goes out in darkness. Faintly, from the right, a whistle sounds; from the left, a far motor-horn. Below the cliff, dully, the surf beats . CURTAIN. ACT THIRD The garden: late afternoon. Long shadows of eucalyptus trees fall across the flame-colored flowers. Far on the mountains the slant sun-beams sharpen the ridges of the golden canyons . In the central path stands ROSALIE, alone. She seems bewildered. She is listening. From the left rises a droning of men's voices in song . The sleepy sound draws nearer and, along the middleground path, laborers enter in file. They are Mexican half-breeds and Japanese coolies, bearing on their backs brush-heaps of small trees. Some of these have fallen and clutter the paths. Passing through the flowers, they disappear, right, the Mexican workmen murmuring their stuttered song, the Japanese in stolid silence . While they have been passing , ROSALIE has picked up a small broken branch, and stands fingering it, as she tries to hum the men's minor-keyed song, which dies away beyond the scene . From the right enters a young woman, dressed as a trained nurse. She has a hushed, impersonal air. She comes toward ROSALIE. In a low voice Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Starting Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 18 words in 3 sentences using 81 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 49 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Going with her Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 55 chars . They go into the greenhouse. From the right enter MRS. HENSHAWE and SPOFFORD. MRS. HENSHAWE'S eyes are red with weeping, and occasionally she sobs . SPOFFORD is divided in his attention between a bundle of newspapers, which he holds under his arm — reading from one which is open — and his solicitude for MRS. HENSHAWE. Together they pass slowly along the middleground path Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars . Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 50 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 53 chars . Mutters as he reads Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars . Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 45 chars . Consolingly Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 36 chars . Muttering Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 49 chars . Pausing to look at the wheelbarrow in the path Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars . Contains 17 words in 1 sentence using 90 chars . Contains 16 words in 3 sentences using 86 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars . Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 58 chars . As they go out, seizes SPOFFORD'S arm, and points suddenly off scene, toward the left foreground Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 21 chars . They go out. On the path behind the bench MARK enters, followed soon by PETER. On his entrance, there is evident in MARK'S face and movements a new and feverish energy, controlled but burning inward. Pausing in the path, he breaks suddenly a flower from its stalk and mechanically tears its petals to pieces, while his eyes search the garden . PETER enters slowly, holding in both hands his inverted straw hat, into which he looks down pensively Contains 21 words in 3 sentences using 114 chars . Murmurs Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 15 words in 1 sentence using 81 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 75 chars . Glancing at the flower, which MARK has torn and scattered on the path, he touches MARK'S arm Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Starting Contains 9 words in 3 sentences using 38 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 38 chars . Searchingly Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 57 chars . Introspective Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars . Contains 21 words in 4 sentences using 101 chars . Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars . Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 39 chars . With sudden conviction, he turns to PETER.] Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Bursting forth Contains 12 words in 3 sentences using 45 chars . With a faint smile Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 24 words in 2 sentences using 121 chars . Nodding Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 15 words in 1 sentence using 72 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 26 words in 4 sentences using 132 chars . Contains 19 words in 3 sentences using 98 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . Contains 37 words in 4 sentences using 193 chars . Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 90 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 28 chars . Contains 35 words in 5 sentences using 168 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 64 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 47 chars . Contains 22 words in 4 sentences using 112 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 54 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars . Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 65 chars . He turns away with a gesture of passionate suffering . PETER, with an anxious look, follows him Contains 11 words in 2 sentences using 54 chars . Contains 39 words in 5 sentences using 178 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars . Contains 31 words in 4 sentences using 141 chars . He starts away, right . PETER doesn't move, but speaks quietly Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Pausing Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 59 chars . Returning slowly Contains 22 words in 4 sentences using 100 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . They go out, by the foreground path, left. From the left middleground , SPOFFORD enters, looks about, and passes off, right, round the green-house. Presently the tall cacti in the background are parted, and MANA emerges. She is dressed in a simple, flower-like gown of gray, and comes slowly down the central path to the pool. Here for a moment she stands silent and rigid, then sinks to a crouching posture on the margin, staring in the water. Behind her, from the left foreground , PETER enters, sees her and approaches quietly. Bending over, he touches her with a light caress, and speaks low Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars . Without turning, shivers Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 77 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars . Contains 22 words in 3 sentences using 133 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 40 chars . Contains 15 words in 3 sentences using 75 chars . With quaint tenderness, he draws her to him. Oblivious, she looks away, right Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 55 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 25 words in 3 sentences using 141 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 63 chars . Contains 27 words in 2 sentences using 128 chars . Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 54 chars . Contains 42 words in 4 sentences using 199 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars . Turning, startled Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 36 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 32 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 36 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Smiling faintly Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 33 words in 3 sentences using 153 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars . Contains 24 words in 4 sentences using 122 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars . Contains 30 words in 5 sentences using 159 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Contains 84 words in 6 sentences using 424 chars . Contains 18 words in 3 sentences using 76 chars . Ruminating Contains 38 words in 4 sentences using 180 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 68 chars . Putting her face against him Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 50 chars . Caressingly Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 65 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 34 chars . She kisses him; then turns away Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 17 words in 3 sentences using 82 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Contains 28 words in 5 sentences using 130 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 42 chars . With amazement Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 45 words in 3 sentences using 214 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 49 chars . Smiling happily, he starts away Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 54 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 78 chars . He points off scene, left Following him Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Pausing to return her caress Contains 16 words in 2 sentences using 69 chars . Laborers are passing in the middleground. He shows her the brushwood on their backs Contains 45 words in 5 sentences using 221 chars . He goes out, left . MANA follows him with her eyes; then she turns and moves slowly toward the greenhouse. In her path lies MARK'S garden prong. Seeing it, she pauses with a look of reminiscence. Then she lifts it, examines the bend in the iron; tries to bend it, but cannot. Meantime MRS. HENSHAWE enters, in the left middleground. Seeing MANA, she sets her features hard, and approaches, in slow-moving haste Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . [MANA drops the iron, closing her eyes, as if struck Contains 18 words in 2 sentences using 84 chars . Without turning Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars . Contains 55 words in 5 sentences using 263 chars . In a low voice Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars . [MANA quivers Contains 36 words in 5 sentences using 156 chars . Turning Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 14 chars . With increasing rapidity Contains 54 words in 6 sentences using 254 chars . With wonder Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 21 words in 4 sentences using 95 chars . Intense and quiet Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 34 words in 6 sentences using 166 chars . Contains 13 words in 1 sentence using 56 chars . Exasperated Contains 71 words in 7 sentences using 375 chars . Breathing hard with pent-up emotion , MANA turns quickly to speak, but curbs herself. Then she murmurs low Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 37 chars . Contains 65 words in 9 sentences using 301 chars . Starting as at a quick sting Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars . Her voice and face kindle Contains 103 words in 7 sentences using 538 chars . Gasping Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Swept by her feeling Contains 100 words in 9 sentences using 527 chars . Contains 58 words in 7 sentences using 263 chars . With quiet tensity Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars . With a scared look Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 25 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Fidgeting to control herself Contains 22 words in 2 sentences using 114 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 28 chars . Increasingly moved Contains 37 words in 5 sentences using 173 chars . Contains 29 words in 4 sentences using 157 chars . [MANA puts one hand gently on MRS. HENSHAWE'S shoulder. For an instant the older woman returns her look of tenderness with a glance half fearful, half in tears. Then, embarrassed, she shakes MANA off, with a shrug of affected unconcern Contains 34 words in 4 sentences using 165 chars . Contains 17 words in 1 sentence using 91 chars . From the greenhouse, the TRAINED NURSE enters Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 21 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 54 chars . Quietly Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . [THE NURSE goes out Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Slowly Contains 9 words in 2 sentences using 47 chars . Staring Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 34 words in 3 sentences using 157 chars . She turns away Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . Enter SPOFFORD, right. He carries a newspaper Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 48 chars . Approaching Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 39 chars . Contains 14 words in 1 sentence using 77 chars . Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 31 chars . Contains 40 words in 6 sentences using 205 chars . Showing the newspaper Contains 36 words in 3 sentences using 198 chars . Very low Contains 10 words in 1 sentence using 56 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 27 words in 1 sentence using 168 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 26 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 37 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . Contains 60 words in 8 sentences using 339 chars . Contains 49 words in 5 sentences using 248 chars . Contains 36 words in 3 sentences using 214 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Contains 46 words in 2 sentences using 264 chars . Contains 18 words in 3 sentences using 99 chars . Reënter, right, the TRAINED NURSE.] Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 32 chars . [THE NURSE goes out To MANA.] Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Quietly Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 8 chars . Contains 25 words in 2 sentences using 128 chars . Tearfully Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Anguished Contains 73 words in 6 sentences using 371 chars . To MRS. HENSHAWE, with a look of troubled questioning Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Hurrying him off Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . [MRS. HENSHAWE and SPOFFORD go off, right . MANA gazes after them, shuddering. Behind her, left, enters MARK. With swift motion, he approaches her — his face lighted with inward fire. Just behind her, he pauses and visibly controls himself. Then, speaking, his voice rings wild and strange — as of one in pain speaking through him Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . At his voice , MANA turns, glances in fear, and — wild-eyed — springs away Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 26 chars . [MANA pauses, compelled Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Hardly vocal Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 15 words in 4 sentences using 66 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 18 chars . Mechanically Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 73 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 10 chars . Contains 29 words in 6 sentences using 151 chars . Awe-struck Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 14 words in 3 sentences using 64 chars . Murmurs Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 14 chars . Contains 13 words in 3 sentences using 66 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 40 words in 4 sentences using 220 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 30 words in 6 sentences using 160 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . Contains 25 words in 3 sentences using 125 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 34 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 8 words in 3 sentences using 39 chars . Breathless Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars . With a deep cry Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 30 chars . He starts away Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 20 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 7 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars . Contains 27 words in 3 sentences using 117 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 43 chars . Tense and low Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . [MARK is moving away Contains 11 words in 3 sentences using 56 chars . Pausing Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 47 chars . With vague questioning Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 84 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Murmuring Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 36 chars . Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 60 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 42 chars . Staring Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 40 words in 7 sentences using 194 chars . In wonder Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 29 chars . Contains 65 words in 10 sentences using 317 chars . Yearningly Contains 3 words in 2 sentences using 19 chars . Contains 19 words in 2 sentences using 78 chars . Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 17 chars . Contains 21 words in 2 sentences using 96 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 44 chars . Slowly, gazing at her Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 23 chars . Simply Contains 9 words in 1 sentence using 42 chars . With awe Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 33 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 9 chars . Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars . Contains 14 words in 2 sentences using 59 chars . With a great breath Contains 28 words in 5 sentences using 113 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 13 chars . Contains 8 words in 1 sentence using 40 chars . Murmurs Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 49 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 5 chars . They move toward each other . MARK draws suddenly back, with a hoarse cry Contains 13 words in 4 sentences using 55 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 40 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 41 chars . Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 48 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 63 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 21 chars . Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars . Contains 12 words in 2 sentences using 62 chars . Contains 21 words in 3 sentences using 99 chars . Enter the TRAINED NURSE, right Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 12 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 15 chars . Contains 13 words in 2 sentences using 83 chars . Feverishly Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 6 chars . Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars . Faintly Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 3 chars . [THE NURSE goes out. During a long, silent moment , MANA and MARK look at each other Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars . Contains 0 words in 0 sentences using 0 chars . Contains 0 words in 0 sentences using 0 chars . Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 52 chars . Happily Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars . Glancing from his little tree to where they stand Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars . He gazes with a quaint smile. His gaze seems to fondle all the garden CURTAIN . 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