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Hi guys, I just need help for those people who have a good understanding of English essay this is for my report in school. This essay is entitled "Why First Night Seem Like Last Night" by Cornelia Otis Skinner. This is about the stage fright of an actress who will play the lead role for the first time and this some paragraphs that I can't understand: "The reading starts and you have the further feeling that you've completely forgotten how to act--if not, indeed, how to read. But then, here and there, among the circles of readers, you catch a fleeting expression of anguished uncertainty, the nervous clearing of throat, the rapid trembling o the script, and are comforted. During the week of rehearsal, stage fright lets up, thanks to hard work and fatigue. And it's not too bad in the interim of road tryouts because of cuts, rewrites, new staging and similar pandemonium. But eventually there looms the prospect of the broadway opening. Speaking for myself, I think this mightn't be quite so bad were it not for the melancholy behavior of my dearest and nearest. My son has the manner of one who has just learned that his mother is not long for this world; my cook, with an expression of acute compassion,talks in whispers and tiptoes in with little messes of broth, while my husband spend hours of demonstrable indigestion at his club and keeps calling me with orders to rest and not talk on the phone." How do you understand this paragraph? Please I really need your help.