Act 1, Scene 8

Question 1

started on stage R and sees Harriet in the tree

Answer 1

Harriet! Harriet you’ll come down from that tree at once!

Question 2

H: Im waiting for Papa!

Answer 2

Fine! when he gets here, I’ll send him up after you!

Question 3

H: there he is! Papa! Papa!
R: Harriet!

Answer 3

Harriet, Come down at once!

Question 4

H: Papa! I can see clear to the church!
R: Can you? Do you see your grandfather?

Answer 4

You think this is funny?

Question 5

R: Shes enjoying herself!

Answer 5

HARRIET! HARRIET!

Question 6

R: Tell you what. If she has no one to shout to… she wont shout.

Answer 6

They can hear her all over the neighborhood.

Question 7

R: Can they?
–leads me to our couch–

Answer 7

When she comes down, I want you to speak to her.

Question 8

R: Shes nine years old Diane.

Answer 8

I trying to raise a daughter, not a son.

Question 9

R: Time is on your side. In another year or two, shes loose all interest in trees… and develop a fascination with boys.

Answer 9

That’s so posed to scare me.

Question 10

R: And when that day comes, you’ll be fanatic. because she no longer wants to climb trees.
pours each a glass

Answer 10

What’s this?

Question 11

R: Something to give you vitality

Answer 11

You think I need vitality?

Question 12

R: That’s what it says on the bottle.

Answer 12

Is it pure?

Question 13

R: I’m his supplier. Want to try it?

Answer 13

If it will give me vitality, how can I refuse? Your father came by to see me today.

Question 14

R: Another hard-luck case.

Answer 14

Four children at home. All under the age of six.

Question 15

R: Let me guess-wife in the hospital with cancer.

Answer 15

Yes.

Question 16

R: And the husbands been laid off from, lets see– the brickyard.

Answer 16

Yes.

Question 17

R: Through no fault of his own?

Answer 17

How did you know?

Question 18

R: Dad was around to see me yesterday. It’s never enough with him. Just to have a ordinary ambitions. You have to have a mission in life.

Answer 18

And you do.

Question 19

R: No, I have a business plan.

Answer 19

You can’t tell me you wouldn’t help this man if you could.

Question 20

R: If I could. but I cant give him a job that doesn’t exist.

Answer 20

What about Dan Lehman?

Question 21

R: Dan?

Answer 21

Maybe he could use some help.

Question 22

R: In the Laboratory? … Don’t you women have a social club for things like this?

Answer 22

The women’s club civics committee?

Question 23

R: Right

Answer 23

Yes, the club takes an interest in such cases. but were not an employment service, either. which is why I thought you could help him.

Question 24

R: oh you do love being married to the company president.

Answer 24

it has it advantages.

Question 25

R: Ever think of trading it in

Answer 25

Do you?

Question 26

R: I got my shoes shined this morning… no inventory, no warehouse, no health inspectors, no stock price-

Answer 26

And you’ll trade it all in for a shoes shine stand?!

Question 27

R: fewer headaches that way.

Answer 27

so you’re in one of those moods again. what is it now? it cant be that market, it just went up today!

Question 28

R: Now you’re reading the financial pages?

Answer 28

I have to entertain myself somehow. so what happened today? your acting very strange.

Question 29

R: Am I? I’m sorry.

Answer 29

You can tell me you know.

Question 30

R: Nothing to tell really. this is going to be the best year ever.

Answer 30

so its the prospect of success that you find so disheartening?

Question 31

R: I’ll get my check book

Answer 31

What for?

Question 32

R: Your bricklayer

Answer 32

Artie! he needs a job not charity. What is it your father always says? a working man needs work, it wears—

Question 33

R: Its wears on his soul not to work… I’ll have a talk to Dan.

Answer 33

Artie!

Question 34

R: But I make no promises, Diane.

Answer 34

No Promises.