Study the re-phrasings and bracketed additions of the second scene-"Nay answere me," "Tis bitter cold," "Not a mouse stirring"-and note that this dialogue gains over the first in that it interests by what it adds as much as by the essential action.
"Dramatic Technique"
George Pierce Baker
Thus exhorted, we settle down just as earnestly, but with more attention to the waymarks and the phrasings of the score.
"Life's Minor Collisions"
Frances Warner Gertrude Warner
Many of his old phrasings clung to him.
""Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea"
Morgan Robertson