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START: ANNE. I have been so long away. I...

Bronte

Emily Bronte Anne Bronte

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START: ANNE. I have been so long away. I am not myself.

EMILY. Sh-sh-sh-sh. You are home.

ANNE. There have been things I dared not look upon for the ache… Stars at night.

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END: ANNE. ...While young men must endlessly prove themselves, we are kept like overgrown infants in the nursery of life, our talents wasted, our energy squandered on meaningless tasks, peering out at a world we will never know –

Polly Teale, Bronte, NHB Modern Plays, Kindle Edition, 2014, pp.58-60

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