HARRY. It’s easy to call me names, but the thing fair beats me. There
is nothing I wouldn’t do for you, but a mere man is so helpless. How
should the likes of me know what to do with a ghost that has lost her
way on earth? I wonder if what it means is that you broke some law,
just to come back for the sake of--of that Harry? If it was that, it’s
surely time He overlooked it.
MARY ROSE. Yes.
(_He looks at the open window._)
HARRY. What a night of stars! Good old glitterers, I dare say they
are in the know, but I am thinking you are too small a thing to get a
helping hand from them.
MARY ROSE. Yes.
(_The call is again heard, but there is in it now no unholy sound. It
is a celestial music that is calling for Mary Rose, Mary Rose, first
in whispers and soon so loudly that, for one who can hear, it is the
only sound in the world. Mary Rose, Mary Rose. As it wraps her round,
the weary little ghost knows that her long day is done. Her face is
shining. The smallest star shoots down as if it were her star sent
for her, and with her arms stretched forth to it trustingly she walks
out through the window into the empyrean. The music passes with her.
HARRY hears nothing, but he knows that somehow a prayer has been
answered._)
_The End_
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