AMY, AGATHA
AMY
I was a fool, to ask you again to Wishwood;
But I thought, thirty-five years is long, and death is an
end,
And I thought that time might have made a change in
Agatha--
It has made enough in me. Thirty-five years ago
You took my husband from me. Now you take my son.
AGATHA
What did I take? nothing that you ever had.
What did I get? thirty years of solitude,
Alone, among women, in a women's college,
Trying not to dislike women. Thirty years in which to
think.
Do you suppose that I wanted to return to Wishwood?
AMY
The more rapacious, to take what I never had;
The more unpardonable, to taunt me with not having
it.
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Publication information:
Book title: The Family Reunion:A Play.
Contributors: T. S. Eliot - Author.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1939.
Page number: 112.
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