Karma. Algernon Blackwood
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you shall understand. And, understanding, you shall learn to—forgive yourself.
[A light falls on his face and figure by the door. Just before he disappears she tears her gaze away from the picture, and turns to him with outstretched hands. He raises his hands as though he were lifting a curtain and holding it up.
Mrs. Lattin
It lifts, it lifts! I hear wind among the palms, and lapping waters. A voice is whispering … “Little Child” … yet in another tongue. …
[From beyond the door his last words reach her with a distant, half-chanting sound.
Doctor
Egypt! Where you began—with him. Your earliest life. Then other lives as well. See—and understand.
[She sinks back exhausted. Her face is radiant through her tears. She has just strength enough to touch the pneumatic bell beside the bed.
CURTAIN
ACT I
THEIR FIRST LIFE TOGETHER.
TIME—2000 B.C.
EGYPT
CHARACTERS
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