Situation:Dorthy is a young woman who is speakingto her finance, Paul, who is a simple man. She realizes that she can't love him anymore because he has always had his eyes closed to the world and to her.

You don't see it. You just don't see it. (in a pleading tone of voice) How can I possibly love you when you don't see it? You don't see anything! You don't see me, you don't see beauty, you don't see grace and goodness and hope.

When the moon shines down upon a lake and the ripples in the water are delicately highlighted by the translucent light, and every single color shines in one magnificient streak of greatness, you don't see it.

And when I look at you, and my eyes are filled with so much pain that I can barely keep them open, you don't see it.

You don't see the sun, you don't see the way rain trickles down the glass and makes streaks so that it's almost impossible to distinguish a face on the opposite side.

Why can't you see?! I can't love you if you close your eyes to the world - to the birds and the sky and the water, and to the people who love you.

(Growing increasingly hostile) Look at me! Watch me! Look at me stand here. Look at me watch you. (pause -silence to work up courage) Look at me leave.

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