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Requiem for a Nun
Manuscript, page 3. Transcription follows image.
Page 3, Requiem for a Nun Ms
MSS 6074, -a, -b, -c, -d Box3 William Faulkner Foundation Collection, 1918-1959, Accession #6074 to 6074-d,
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
[Item Metadata: Autograph manuscript 75 p. (38 R, 37 V) on 38 l.]

TRANSCRIPTION

ACT I

Int. Living room, night. The room lights come on, as though someone just
about to enter the door had pressed the switch. Temple enters, followed
by Todd, then Stevens. All wear coats, the two men still carrying their
hats. Temple crosses Center, stops. <Without sto> Stevens stops just inside
door, holding his hat. Without stopping, <Stevens> Todd drops his hat onto
a chair in passing and goes in and kneels at hearth, strikes match to
wood fire <laid> already laid on the swept hearth. Temple lifts her arms
slightly, waiting for someone to take her coat.

Temple (to no one)
Todd.

Todd rises quietly, comes briskly(?), almost [illegible], up behind Temple and
takes the coat which she shrugs off without looking back at him. Todd lays
the fur coat carefully over a chair, <begins to> strolls back to the fire, sees it
is now burning well, then begins to remove his own, seems to remember his
manners again and turns toward Stevens, who had not moved.

Todd (to Stevens)
Let me take yours -

&ndbsp;