Oh--Abbie. Yes--I know now. I want you to know. Only--there are things not for words. Feeling--not for words. As a throbbing thing that flies and sings--not for the hand. [_She starts to close her hand, uncloses it._] But, Abbie--there is nothing to hide. There is no shameful thing. What you saw in her eyes as she brooded over life in leaving it--what made you afraid--was _her_ seeing--her seeing into the shadowed places of the life she was leaving. And then--a gift to the spirit. A gift sent back through the dark. Preposterous. Profound. Oh--love her Abbie! She’s worth more love than we have power to give! [_CRAIG has come back with some branches from the trees; he stands outside the door a moment, taking out a few he does not want. MARGARET hears him and turns. Then turns back._] Power. Oh, how _strange_. [_CRAIG comes in, and MARGARET and ABBIE watch him as he puts the bright leaves in the vase. The FATHER comes in._ FATHER The man who is in charge says we will have to be ready now to--[_Seeing what has been done to the room._] Oh, you have given the room back to Bernice! MARGARET Given everything back to Bernice. Bernice. Insight. The tenderness of insight. And the courage. [_To the FATHER, and suddenly with tears in her voice._] She _was_ wistful. And held out her hands [_Doing this_] with gifts she was not afraid to send back. [_Very simply._] She loved you, Craig. CRAIG I know that, Margaret. I know now how much. MARGARET [_Low._] And more than that. [_Her voice electric._] Oh, in all the world--since first life _moved_--has there been any beauty like the beauty of perceiving love?... No. Not for words. [_She closes her hand, uncloses it in a slight gesture of freeing what she would not harm._ (CURTAIN) * * * * * SUPPRESSED DESIRES A COMEDY IN TWO SCENES (In Collaboration with George Cram Cook) First Performed by the Provincetown Players, at the Wharf Theatre, Provincetown, Mass., August, 1914 * * * * * ORIGINAL CAST HENRIETTA BREWSTER SUSAN GLASPELL STEPHEN BREWSTER GEORGE CRAM COOK MABEL MARY PYNE SUPPRESSED DESIRES SCENE I: _A studio apartment in an upper story, Washington Square South. Through an immense north window in the back wall appear tree tops and the upper part of the Washington Arch. Beyond it you look up Fifth Avenue. Near the window is a big table, loaded at one end with serious-looking books and austere scientific periodicals. At the other end are architect’s drawings, blue prints, dividing compasses, square, ruler, etc. At the left is a door leading to the rest of the apartment; at the right the outer door. A breakfast table is set for three, but only two are seated at it--HENRIETTA and STEPHEN BREWSTER. As the curtains withdraw STEVE pushes back his coffee cup and sits dejected._ HENRIETTA