← You're so kind, nurse. I'll just have a little coffee. 🔊✎
← turns her head away a little and then adds in a hard voice. ✎
← (She holds him to her a little tighter) ✎
← moves back a little, says softly. ✎
← I have lain them down to sleep next to each other, finally! They are washed now and rested. They just look a little pale, but so calm. Two lovers on the morning after their first night. It is over for them. 🔊✎
← The poor of Thebes will be cold this winter, Creon. When she learned of her son's death, the queen put down her needles, calmly and sensibly, after she'd finished her row, just as she'd always done, perhaps a little more calmly than usual. 🔊✎
← And then she went into her bedroom, her bedroom that smelled of lavender, with little embroidered doilies and plush frames, and there she cut her throat, Creon. She is stretched out now on one of the little old-fashioned twin beds, in the same place where you first saw her when she was still a girl, and with the same smile, just a little sadder. And if there weren't that large red stain on the sheets around her neck, you'd think she was asleep. 🔊✎