"Not my favorite of Tom's plays, but, yeah, I'm talking about Orpheus. He was sad, of course, of course he was sad, when Eurydice died. But after -- when he couldn't bring her back -- even though he got so close, and got to see her again, which is, for a mortal, an incredible feat -- when he got home, he was still without her, only now he had unimaginable guilt. He couldn't -- couldn't live with it, I suppose." He has been sort of staring off to the side this whole time, but suddenly he directs his attention back to Constance with a strong intensity. "I don't want something like that to happen to you, dear."
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