Agnes of God Page #5

AGNES:

Would you like to be?

MARTHA:

Not at the moment, no.

AGNES:

Do you have any children?

MARTHA:

No.

AGNES:

Would you like some?

MARTHA:

I can't have them any more.

AGNES:

Why not?

MARTHA:

(a pause)

I've stopped menstruating

AGNES:

Why do you smoke?

MARTHA:

Does it bother you?

AGNES:

No questions.

MARTHA:

Smoking is an obsession with me.

Maybe one day I'll become obsessed

with something else, then I'll stop

smoking... Do you have any more

questions?

AGNES:

One.

MARTHA:

What?

They both halt.

AGNES:

Where do you think babies come from?

MARTHA:

From their mothers and fathers of

course. Before that, I... I don't

know.

AGNES:

Well I think they come from... angel

lights on their mothers chest and

whispers into her ear. That makes good

babies start to grow. And bad babies

come from when a fallen angel squeezes

in down there, and they start to grow,

grow, till they come out down there.

I don't know where good babies come out.

And you can't tell the difference...

except bad babies cry a lot... and they

make their fathers go away... and their

mothers get very ill... die sometimes.

Agnes sits down on a bench and Martha follows her.

AGNES (Cont.)

Mummy wasn't very happy when she died

... and, I think she went to hell because

every time I see her she looks like she

just stepped out of a hot shower, and I...

I'm never sure if it's her, or the Lady who

tells me things! They fight over me all

the time.

(staring into space)

The Lady... I saw when I was ten. I was

lying on the grass, looking at the sun, and

the sun became a cloud, and the cloud

became, a Lady. And she told me she would

talk to me. And then... her feet began to

bleed and I saw there... there were holes

in her hands and in her side. And I tried to

catch the blood as it fell from the sky, but

I couldn't see any more because my eyes

hurt because there were big black spots in

front of them. And she tells me things like,

like... right now she's crying Marie! Marie!

... but I don't know what that means.

Martha stands up, disturbed. Agnes is slightly delirious with

happiness.

AGNES (Cont.)

... and... she uses me to sing, it's as

if she's throwing a big hook through

the air and it catches me under my ribs

and tries to pull me up, and I... I can't

move because Mommy's holding my feet

and all I can do is sing in her voice...

it's the Lady's voice, God loves you!

And her cry echoes all around and the doves fly out of the bell

tower.

AGNES (Cont.)

(to Martha)

God loves you.

MARTHA:

Do you know a Marie?

AGNES:

No... do you?

MARTHA:

Why should I?

AGNES:

I don't know.

23 INT - MOTHER MIRIAM'S STUDY - DAY

Mother Miriam is standing checking some papers when Martha

enters. Mother Miriam seems to have entirely regained her good

humour.

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