What happened in 1834?
BERNARD What happened in 1834?
HANNAH My hermit died.
BERNARD Of course.
HANNAH What do you mean, of course? BERNARD Nothing.
HANNAH Yes, you do.
BERNARD No, no . . . However, Coleridge also died in 1834.
HANNAH So he did. What a stroke of luck. (Softening.) Thank you, Bernard. She goes to the reading stand and opens Noakes’s sketch book. . . .
