Lincoln2012

Abraham Lincoln:
[describing a dream] It's nighttime. The ship's moved by some terrible power, at a terrific speed. Though it's imperceptible in the darkness, I have an intuition that we're headed towards a shore. No one else seems to be aboard the vessel. I'm alone. I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. I reckon it's the speed that's strange to me. I'm used to going a deliberate pace. I should spare you. I shouldn't tell you my dreams.

Mary Todd Lincoln:
I don't want to be spared if you aren't! And you spare me nothing. Perhaps it's the assault on Wilmington Port. You dream about the ship before a battle, usually.

Abraham Lincoln:
[rapping lightly on his forehead] How's the coconut?

Mary Todd Lincoln:
Beyond description. Almost two years, nothing mends. Another casualty of the war. Who wants to listen to a useless woman grouse about her carriage accident?

Abraham Lincoln:
I do.

Mary Todd Lincoln:
Stuff! You tell me dreams, that's all, I'm your soothsayer, that's all I am anymore, I'm not to be trusted with - Even if it wasn't a carriage accident, even if it was an attempted assassination.

Abraham Lincoln:
It was most likely an-

Mary Todd Lincoln:
It was an assassin. Whose intended target was you.

Abraham Lincoln:
How's the plans for the big shindy progressing?

Mary Todd Lincoln:
I don't want to talk about parties! You don't care about parties.

Abraham Lincoln:
Not much, but they're a necessary-

Mary Todd Lincoln:
I know... I know what it's about. The ship, it isn't Wilmington Port, it's not a military campaign! It's the amendment to abolish slavery! Why else would you force me to invite demented radicals into my home? You're going to try to get the amendment passed in the House of Representatives before the inauguration.

Abraham Lincoln:
[standing] Don't spend too much money on the flubdubs.

Mary Todd Lincoln:
No one's loved as much as you, no one's ever been loved so much, by the people. Don't, don't waste that power on an amendment bill that's sure of defeat. [she turns away, walking to an open window.] Did you remember Robert's coming home for the reception? [Lincoln nods] I knew you'd forget. That's the ship you're sailing on. The Thirteenth Amendment. You needn't tell me I'm right. I know I am.