The Right to Live (1935)

Peggy Wood: Nurse Wayland

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• Nurse Wayland : [talking about Maurice]  Yes, he kept his courage for you. I was the only one who saw his depression.

  Stella Trent : Before last night I never saw him depressed.

  Nurse Wayland : You never saw anything.

  Stella Trent : Why do you talk to me like that, Nurse. What have I done to you? I don't understand it.

  Nurse Wayland : Don't you? He hid everything from you. *All* his moments of black misery. But I was only his paid nurse, he didn't have to pretend with me. He could quarrel with me and say he was sorry if he'd hurt me, knowing that I didn't count. But to make you laugh, he plastered his face with flour, painted his nose red and jumped through a hoop. You only saw the white mask of the clown. I saw his naked, tortured, triumphant soul.