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been holding her? All of these years.
    CATHY : You say it doesn’t happen? . . .
    ANN : Does it?
    CATHY : That the State . . .
    ANN : Are you an Enemy of the State?
    CATHY : I was.
    ANN : And now? Are you an Enemy of the State?
    CATHY : No.
    ANN : But you were.
    CATHY : Yes.
    ANN : What are the ways in which enemies may be reconciled?
    CATHY : . . . all right . . .
    ANN (Reads) : “These are the ways in which Enemies can be reconciled.”
    CATHY : I was young. And I was a fool.
    ANN : “Surrender of life, of property, of land, or of Prejudice,” which I understand to mean, of a previously held belief.
    CATHY : Have you done nothing, in your youth . . .
    ANN : “Or, in plainer English, Enemies may be reconciled if one or both recant, revise or surrender their position.” Which do we find here?
    CATHY : I don’t know.
    ANN : How can I know unless you tell me?
    CATHY : Do you enjoy my discomfort?
    ANN : You chose to come here. To see me.
    CATHY : That’s right.
    ANN : Seeking approval for your request. Which request may only be obtained through my endorsement.
    CATHY : Which may only be obtained from you .
    ANN : That’s right.
    (Pause.)
    CATHY : All right, “why?”
    ANN : Because I have been delegated that power.
    CATHY : And why you?
    ANN : As a representative of the State.
    CATHY : “With all your imperfections.”
    ANN : Did you assume: your request, might be effected without, at the least some discomfort? I will not say anger, shame or hatred on your part? Did you assume I would not probe you.
    CATHY : Delegating power . . .
    ANN : Oh, yes. As we find, in your book . . . May be understood as cowardice , both on the part . . .
    CATHY : . . . delegating power . . .
    ANN : . . . in your letters . No. I beg your pardon. In your talks . In your pamphlet . . . in . . .
    CATHY : And they’re hardly “talks,” and, “delegating power,” yes, must imply superior, superior . . .
    ANN : . . . but wasn’t that the essence of your Movement? Teaching the ignorant that “they have the power.”
    CATHY : The power wasn’t ours to give. It was theirs.
    ANN : And you were simply “reminding” them.
    CATHY : We . . .
    ANN : Is that what you were doing?
    CATHY : We thought we were “awakening” them.
    ANN : How had you been awakened?
    CATHY : I hadn’t been awakened. Now I . . .
    ANN : Yes. But I’m asking you now. What did you think then? How could you wake them, if you, if . . .
    CATHY : My political views of that time . . .
    ANN : By what superiority on your part? Do you see?
    CATHY : . . . ah-hah . . .
    ANN : . . . had you been granted that revelation?
    CATHY : My political views, of that time.
    (Pause.)
    ANN : Go on . . .
    CATHY : Having been convicted, and those views offered in . . .
    ANN : “Illegally”?
    CATHY : . . . whether illegally or not, in support of my guilt, they, after my conviction, must become moot.
    ANN : Yes?
    CATHY : According to the Law.
    ANN : All right.
    CATHY : And you debarred from interrogating me concerning them.
    ANN : All right.
    CATHY : No, it’s not all right. Or am I meant to be perpetually persecuted . . .
    ANN : But . . .
    CATHY : No. No. What does it mean? That someone has “said” this or that? Or “mouthed a doctrine”? It’s words. It’s sounds. It changes nothing.
    ANN : It’s mere words.
    CATHY : That’s right.
    ANN : But you acted upon them.
    CATHY : That’s not what I was tried for. Unless it was a political crime. Was it a political crime?
    ANN : . . . I.
    CATHY : No, if my “views” could not be adduced in mitigation of my crime they cannot be adduced now to extend my . . .
    ANN : I . . .
    CATHY : . . . to extend my punishment. Separate the speech, which you declare was mere foolishness.
    ANN : . . . except . . .
    CATHY : . . . and I agree with you.
    ANN : . . . except . . .
    CATHY : No. There is the pamphlet . And there is the