| scene | page, line IN | page, line OUT | notes |
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| 1 | 1, opening | 2, FV: …hear their dreams. | opening |
| 2 | 2, FV: Captain Cat… | 4, CC: Oh, my dead dears! | the drowned |
| 3 | 4, FV: From where you are… | 5, SV: …lost currants. | Myfanwy, JB, Evans the death |
| 4 | 5, FV: And in the little pink-eyed cottage… | 8, L. Boy: No, no, no! | Mr Waldo |
| 5 | 8, FV: Now, in her lily-white… | 12, FV:…And the dawn inches up. | MrsO-P, MrO, MrP, etc. |
| 6 | 12, FV: Stand on this hill. | 14, SV: …His morning service is over. | [guide-book] Rev. Eli Jenkins's Prayer |
| 7 | 14, FV: Now, woken at last… | 18, CC: …savours his sea fry. | Lily's song, Mr/Mrs Pugh, maryann, daibread:Mr, Mrs 1,2; et al… |
| 8 | 18, FV: Mr and Mrs Cherry Owen… | 20, Mr Edwards: I love Miss Price | Mr/Mrs Owen, Beynon's |
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| 9 | 20, FV: Syrup is sold… | 24, SV:…The morning's busy as bees. | Captain Cat observes |
| 10 | 24, FV: There's the clip-clop of horses… | 25, Mrs OM: Oh, I'm a martyr to music. | [gossip] |
| 11 | 25, FV: Outside, the sun springs down on the rough and tumbling town. | 28, CC: (song) …good for a baby in a milking pail. | end of Act One |
| 12 | 28, FV: The music of the spheres… | 29, Mrs DB2: Ach, the mean old clouds! | crystal ball |
| 13 | 29, FV: The morning is all singing. | 30, SV: …visit the sick with jelly and poems. | polly's song |
| 14 | 30, FV: The town's as full as a lovebird's egg. | 32, FV: …pop goes the weasel and the wind. |
| 15 | 32, SV: Gossamer Beynon high-heels out of school. | 33, SV:…kidneys of lambs. | Gossamer |
| 16 | 33, FV: In the blind-drawn dark… | 35, FV: …ping, strike, tick, chime, and tock. | Pugh, evidence of Organ Morgan, Tick Tock |
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| 17 | 35, SV: The lush and lilt and lather… | 37, SV: —he murmurs with a wheedle. | Polly again, and pigs |
| 18 | 37, FV: Captain Cat, at his window… | 39, FV: the child tells her mother. | Rosie, Captain Cat, Child |
| 19 | 39, SV: Boyo catches a whalebone corset. | 40, SV: …never been sweet in the grass ho ho. | end of day |
| 20 | 40, FV: The Reverend Eli Jenkins inky… | 41, FV:… Llareggub is the capital of dusk. | begin evening |
| 21 | 41, FV:… Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard… | 42, SV: …the goats champ and sneer. | MrsO-P, MrO, MrP, Mae Rose |
| 22 | 42, FV: And at the doorway of Bethesda House… | 43, Sinbad: Oh, Gossamer, open yours! | |
| 23 | 43, FV: Dusk is drowned forever until tomorrow. | end | end of play |
