He is alive, and no one told me.
This drama scene is an excerpt from Nameless Grace, wherein Colette reveals to her Doctor that her lover did not die in the war.
Featured Scene – Nameless Grace
DOCTOR BAUM: …Are you certain the man you saw was Walter?
COLETTE: Yes, I am.
DOCTOR BAUM: I see. (pause) You do recall the burial service we had for him, do you not?
COLETTE: I was not in attendance.
DOCTOR BAUM: Yes, that is true.
COLETTE: I was not well that day.
DOCTOR BAUM: Yes, you weren’t.
COLETTE: Had I been well, I would have attended. Surely, you believe me, don’t you, Doctor?
DOCTOR BAUM: I most certainly do believe you, Colette.
COLETTE: Right. A person has free will. CHOICE! A person can decide what they wish and don’t wish; not everything needs to be what people tell you, yes?
DOCTOR BAUM: There are some instances where it is helpful to…let us say…elaborate on the things we wish to believe, and yet there are times when it is often better to connect with what actually does exist.
COLETTE: Very clever how you put those words in order, just for me.
DOCOTR BAUM: Colette? (beat) How long has it been that you’ve been seeing Walter?
COLETTE: What is time? Time does not exist. It is only a fabrication in order for mathematics to add up to something. Four plus four isn’t always five, Doctor Baum. You should know that. How else are we to make progress as a species? Things shouldn’t be fixed!
DOCTOR BAUM: (trying to keep on her side) Colette. I can’t say I disagree with you entirely.
COLETTE: (calming) That is quite good of you.
DOCTOR BAUM: Shall we walk back?
COLETTE: Doctor, you do believe me, don’t you?
DOCTOR BAUM: Colette, I do believe that what you saw was real to your being.
COLETTE: Yes, but you do believe me when I say what I say to you about Walter, don’t you? He is alive, and no one told me. Except that he is different. Understandably so because war will change a man…all his faculties, his mind especially, as I’ve witnessed.
Let me speak plainly so as not to confuse you… I am all too aware that you think what I saw was an apparition or a hallucination of some sort. You imagine so, simply by the fear you currently carry in your eyes, that I am losing my mind, and I am here to tell you quite bluntly that I am losing my mind. I am. Though not in the way you believe. Not in your calculating, educated way, Mr. Baum, Doctor…but what I speak to you in confidence, I hope it’s in confidence, is that I have plans to meet Walter; I’ve studied him enough to know just how he must be treated. These are my own arrangements, mind you. I have not spoken to Walter yet, but I plan on meeting him, reintroducing myself to him, and meeting him where he lives. To bring him back to me!
Do not think for a moment that the care you and my family have brought upon me, to protect me, has gone unnoticed. I’m all too aware of how afraid you all are of my well-being. Which is why I wasn’t told about Walter’s return. I cannot say that I am not disappointed, but I understand your ploy.
If I were to discover that Walter was alive and not in fit form, what a shock that would deliver to me…as you all would rightfully imagine…but there is no shock, Doctor. Only tenderness. Only my maternal instincts, if you will, but not as a mother, no, as a lover, Walter’s lover…
I wish to care for him, to bathe him, clothe him, nourish him back to life. Only I can do that for him, you see?
When Walter comes back to me, he will love me again, and we will be together forever.
I do NOT wish to be stopped! (softly) I wish to be encouraged. It is a wonderful thing to love. And it is all too late, Doctor Baum. I have seen him now.
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Scene Summary
Nameless Grace is a one-act eplay that takes play between Colette and Doctor Baum during a casual stroll through a garden. After some questioning from Doctor Baum about Colette’s mental condition, she reveals to him that she has discovered that the man she was going to marry never died during battle.
- Genre: Drama
- Length: ~5 minute scene
- Characters: 1 woman, 1 man
- Themes: doctor / patient, love
- Best For: 1 woman, 1 man drama scenes
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Scene Source: Nameless Grace
Nameless Grace is a drama play script by Joseph Arnone, 2026.
