Tenko

[repeated lines]

Mrs. Domenica Van Meyer:
How dare you speak to me this way?

Capt. Yamauchi:
In Japan we cherish the young but also honour the dead.

Dorothy Bennett:
[Dorthoy cowers on the floor, she sees Sister Ulrica's feet, and looks up] Please...?

[the nun has taken a vow of silence. She shakes her head no, and places her fingers over her mouth]

Dorothy Bennett:
I need you so badly; you don't know!

[Ulrica sits on the floor with Dorothy, holding her hands]

Dorothy Bennett:
To talk to... I'm pregnant. Pregnant! By one of the guards...

[Ulrica takes Dorothy's face in hands and kisses her forehead. Dorothy pushes her away]

Dorothy Bennett:
It's growing inside me. Struggling into the world, only to die. I've seen it all before. My little Violet buried out there somewhere... lost. Sally's baby died before sh...

[Dorothy stands]

Dorothy Bennett:
I can't go through with it, and I don't intend to.

Sister Ulrica:
[whispers and then shouts] No... No!

[last lines]

Marion Jefferson:
Well, that's over.