When the Dew Falleth
SIMAH If I only knew it. I thought you were still asleep.
EZRA Ha, ha, ha! She thinks that old people always sleep.
SIMAH But you are usually asleep at this time.
NACHOMAH (fo Ezra)
Now go an be angry with her!
EZRA (in somewhat better humor)
And I was already going to send you away. simaAH (éridling)
You don’t have to send me away. I can go
away myself.
NACHOMAH Do I know what he’s talking about. I got a stitch in my side—and he... .
SIMAH Better taste the raspberries. See, my hands are full.
(Ezra takes a few out of one hand and Nachomah helps herself from the other. Simah is on her knees before them with her hands outstretched, full of raspberries. She gazes into their eyes while they eat of the berries.)
EZRA What a notion—to gather raspberries at this time! .
NACHOMAH
One never sees her any more.
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