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NATHANIEL
Boy--boy--Jonathan!--I believe you are you.
JONATHAN
Uncle Nathaniel!
[_He rises slowly._
Oh, people of all the world, my Uncle Nathaniel understands.--I speak for all the boys of all times. Have patience--patience and understanding. Don't you remember when you were young? We come to you with hopes and dreams and wishes and fears,--and these are the things that life is made of--
NATHANIEL
I am here, Jonathan.
JONATHAN
I'm coming to you. I'm coming back to you with all my hopes and dreams.
NATHANIEL
We're waiting for you, Jonathan.
JONATHAN
I've made my wish that's coming true!!
[_He jumps into s.p.a.ce._
_Curtain._
ACT III
JONATHAN MAKES A WISH
[_The scene is a summer house on the estate of John Clay. It is charmingly furnished with wicker chairs and a table. The building is hexagon shape and we look into half the hexagon. The doors at the left open on to the path that leads from the house. The doors at the back open onto a garden path that leads to a gate. Eight weeks have elapsed since the first act._
_The curtain rises disclosing an empty stage. It is early evening and sunset is leaving only the faintest tinge above the hills. After a moment Jonathan enters. He is unchanged except that he still carries in his eyes some of the horror of his delirium. He opens the back windows and then sits above the table and begins to look at an ill.u.s.trated paper._
_Nathaniel enters carrying a ma.n.u.script. He seems a bit less carefree than at his homecoming, and he also seems closer to Jonathan._
NATHANIEL
Well, my boy--
JONATHAN
Uncle Nathaniel, did you know that Cap.r.o.ni was an artist?
NATHANIEL
You mean the Cap.r.o.ni who makes the wonderful aeroplanes?
JONATHAN
Yes, sir.
NATHANIEL
No, I didn't know it; but I'm not surprised.
JONATHAN
Aren't these pictures fine?
NATHANIEL
Excellent.
JONATHAN
He made them.... They're like great dragon-flies, aren't they?
NATHANIEL
A whole swarm of them.
JONATHAN
It must feel funny to fly through air.
NATHANIEL
Would you like to try it some time?
JONATHAN
Yes... but I'd have to get used to it.... It must be like diving.
NATHANIEL
When you were very ill you seemed to imagine you were falling.
JONATHAN
