Jo feels the intense pleasure and pain MEG

of being seen by someone, of knowing

that they know you. Just because my dreams are not the

BETH same as ours doesn’t mean they’re

Do you miss him? unimportant.

JO JO

(tearing up) I’d rather be a free spinster and

I miss everything. paddle my own canoe.

BETH (hugging her, crying)

I know. I can’t believe childhood is over.

AMY JO

Talent isn’t genius, and no amount (tearing up)

of energy can make it so. I want to I know that I care more to be

be great, or nothing. I won’t be a loved. I want to be loved.

common-place dauber, so I don’t MARMEE

intend to try anymore. That is not the same as loving.

AMY JO

I do think that male or female, I’m (crying, trying to explain

a middling talent. herself to herself)

AMY Women have minds and souls as well

Well. I’m not a poet, I’m just a as hearts, ambition and talent as

woman. And as a woman I have no way well as beauty and I’m sick of

to make money, not enough to earn a being told that love is all a woman

living and support my family. is fit for. But... I am so lonely.

AMY (CONT'D) FRIEDRICH

Even if I had my own money, which I But, but I have nothing to give you

don’t, it would belong to my but my full heart and these empty

husband the minute we were married. hands.

If we had children they would JO

belong to him not me. They would be (she puts her hands in

his property. So don’t sit there his, and steps under the

and tell me that marriage isn’t an umbrella)

economic proposition, because it They aren’t empty now.

is. It may not be for you but it They kiss one of those epic perfect
kisses. The train
most certainly is for me.
arrives, and he doesn’t get on it. BAM