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Question 1

1. Emily: it’s true isn’t it? I can go and live… back there… again.

Answer 1

Yes, some have tried - but they soon come back here.

Question 2

2. Liz: You not only live it; but you watch yourself living it.
   Emily: Yes?

Answer 2

And as you watch it, you see the thing that they - down there - never know. You see the future. You know what’s going to happen afterwards.

Question 3

3. Emily: I choose my twelfth birthday.

Answer 3

All right. February 11th, 1899. A Tuesday - Do you want any special time of the day?

Question 4

4. Emily: …And there’s the the livery stable.

Answer 4

Yes, its 1899. This is fourteen years ago.

Question 5

5. Emily: …Are they inside?

Answer 5

Yes, your mother’ll be coming downstairs in a minute to make breakfast.

Question 6

6. Emily: No…?

Answer 6

He’d been back to his college to make a speech - in western New York, at Clinton.

Question 7

7. Liz: Most everybody’s asleep in Grover’s Corners.

Answer 7

There are a few lights on: Shortly Hawkins, down at the depot, has just watched the Albany train go by. And at the livery stable somebody’s setting up late and talking. - Yes, its clearing up.

Question 8

8. Liz: Just chalk… or fire.

Answer 8

Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself.

Question 9

9. Liz: The strain’s got so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.

Answer 9

Hm… Eleven o’clock in Grover’s Corners.

Question 10

10. Liz: You get a good rest, too.

Answer 10

Good night.