← I get up when it's still dark, I go to your room to see if you've kicked off the covers again, and I find you're not in your bed! 🔊✎
← You'll need to wash your feet before you go back to bed. 🔊✎
← I get up to see if she's kicked off the covers. I find her bed cold and no one there. 🔊✎
← You useless old thing, yes, you useless old thing, you were supposed to make sure my little one was a good girl. Always shouting, always doing guard dog duty, telling them to wear their woolens so they don't catch cold and whisking eggs so they'd grow up strong, but at four in the morning you're asleep on the job, you useless old thing, you're the one who never needs sleep but you're asleep, and you let her escape, and when you get there her bed is cold! 🔊✎
← If you love me, you'll tell me the truth. Why was your bed cold when I came to tuck you in? 🔊✎
← Let me hold your hand like I did when you stayed next to my bed. 🔊✎
← If my brother had returned, exhausted after a long hunt, I would have taken off his boots, I would have got him something to eat, I would have made his bed... 🔊✎
← O tomb! O nuptial bed! O my abode beneath the earth! ... 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎