ANTHONY: I did it. Don't you see? I didn't want so many around. Not--what this place is for. HARRY: (_snatching at this but lets it go_) She wouldn't let--(_looking up at_ CLAIRE--_then quickly hiding his face_) And--don't you see? CLAIRE: Out. (_a little like a child's pleased surprise_) Out. (DICK _stands there, as if unable to get to the door--his face distorted, biting his hand_.) ANTHONY: Miss Claire! You can do anything--won't you try? CLAIRE: Reminiscence? (_speaking the word as if she has left even that, but smiles a little_) (ANTHONY _takes Reminiscence, the flower she was breeding for fragrance for Breath of Life--holds it out to her. But she has taken a step forward, past them all_.) CLAIRE: Out. (_as if feeling her way_) Nearer, (_Her voice now feeling the way to it_.) Nearer-- (_Voice almost upon it_.) --my God, (_Falling upon it with surprise_.) to Thee, (_Breathing it_.) Nearer--to Thee, E'en though it be-- (_A slight turn of the head toward the dead man she loves--a mechanical turn just as far the other way_.) a cross That (_Her head going down_.) raises me; (_Her head slowly coming up--singing it_.) Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my-- (_Slowly the curtain begins to shut her out. The last word heard is the final_ Nearer--_a faint breath from far_.) CURTAIN INHERITORS _Inheritors_ was first performed at the Provincetown Playhouse on April 27, 1921. SMITH (a young business man) GRANDMOTHER (SILAS MORTON'S mother) SILAS MORTON (a pioneer farmer) FELIX FEJEVARY, the First (an exiled Hungarian nobleman) FELIX FEJEVARY, the Second (his son, a Harvard student) FELIX FEJEVARY, the Second (a banker) SENATOR LEWIS (a State Senator) HORACE FEJEVARY (son of FELIX FEJEVARY, the Second) DORIS (a student at Morton College) FUSSIE (another college girl) MADELINE FEJEVARY MORTON (daughter of IRA MORTON, and granddaughter of SILAS MORTON) ISABEL FEJEVARY (wife of FELIX FEJEVARY, the Second, and MADELINE'S aunt) HARRY (a student clerk) HOLDEN (Professor at Morton College) IRA MORTON (son of SILAS MORTON, and MADELINE'S father) EMIL JOHNSON (an Americanized Swede) ACT I