Act 2 Scene 1

Question 1

Jim: … to haunt a respectable georgetown wife. Its like a Jane Wyman movie. But with lesbians.

Answer 1

Mildred, she didn’t actually say anything, didn’t indicate-

Question 2

Millie: No, but Bob, the wheels were turning, I saw it on her face, its only a natter of time.

Answer 2

But Barbara Grants out every night of the week with a different date -

Question 3

Jim: Well, a date with Millie certainly would’ve been different.

Answer 3

It probably wasn’t an isolated occurrence, right? The woman has no moral standards whatsoever, she’ll bang anything.

Question 4

Millie: Oh, thanks, Bob. Thanks a heap.

Answer 4

You know what I mean, Mildred. We can deny this.

Question 5

Jim: … probably won’t. It certainly wouldn’t improve her situation.

Answer 5

Norma, have you ever known Barbara Grant to discuss her affairs at work?

Question 6

Norma: No, she keeps to herself, mostly.

Answer 6

See?

Question 7

Jim: You don’t think she’d resort to blackmail, do you?

Answer 7

She might. We can’t take that chance, can we? I mean, we can’t. There’s too much risk involved.

Question 8

Norma: Don’t you think the hundreds of people Bob’s fired have denied it?

Answer 8

My character is unassailable. Barbara’s just some tramp. No one’ll listen to any of her nonsense.

Question 9

Millie: Are you going to talk to sunderson?

Answer 9

What would I say?

Question 10

Millie: Thanks, babe.

Answer 10

We’ll devise a plan. Come Monday I’ll fix this.

Question 11

Jim: Of course. This is not a crisis. We can work this out.

Answer 11

Absolutely we can.

Question 12

Norma: Sure.

Answer 12

I’ll stay over here till Kitty’s gone.

Question 13

Millie: Bob Martindale, I swear I will scratch your eyes out if you don’t stop looking at me like that.

Answer 13

Like what?

Question 14

Millie: That suffering martyr look you get. Like one of those sad portraits of the virgin mother. This is not my fault.

Answer 14

No, it isn’t.

Question 15

Millie: Thank you.

Answer 15

Not entirely.

Question 16

Millie: Bob!

Answer 16

Well, Mildred, if you’d been a little more discriminating in your choices, instead of… taking up an extracurricular.

Question 17

Millie: … state departments chief inquisitor. Why oh why did that never cross my mind?

Answer 17

Is that what you think? Of the work I do? Chief inquisitor?

Question 18

Millie: Frankly, yes, Bob. It’s gotten completely out of hand.

Answer 18

The work I do was designed to prevent situations just like this, Mildred. What if that teacher you screwed in Canada hadn’t become a Department translator? What if she started working for foriegn intelligence? KGB? She could blackmail us, force me to divulge government secrets, hijack our whole lives, and there’s nothing we could do. We would be ruined. Thats why we have no choice. You are my family, and I am trying to protect us. I am an american, and Im trying to protect my country. Its not an indictment in moral terms, its realistically assessing risk.

Question 19

Millie: I see your point.

Answer 19

Thank you. Would you please talk to Norma about it, then? Her reticence has me concerned.

Question 20

Millie: Kitty sunderson.

Answer 20

Wait.

Question 21

Millie: You have a cold.

Answer 21

Damn it!

Question 22

Millie: Oh, Kitty! This smells like a dream. Bob, kitty brought you some chicken soup.

Answer 22

Thanks Kitty.

Question 23

Millie: … what if you gave little germies to the singers and shut down the whole production?

Answer 23

Thats solid thinking, Millie.

Question 24

Kitty: … that sweet little jew deli on 34th. It’s got the big noodle balls in it, the whatchadoodles -

Answer 24

Matzo balls?

Question 25

Barbara: Was that how we met? I swear it seems even -

Answer 25

(Coughing fit)

Question 26

Barbara: … had herself an extra ticket. Quite the stroke of luck.

Answer 26

Barbara, what game are you playing?

Question 27

Barbara: Well that answers one of my questions. Several remain.

Answer 27

I fail to see how it’s any of your buisness.

Question 28

Millie: Bob darling, I’m so sorry you have to hear all this blue talk.

Answer 28

How many times was it for you, professor pepper? Is that why theres no Mister Grant anymore? Have a little trouble deciding what side of the fence you belong on?

Question 29

Barbara: … But I know you do. I know very well. You remember how well, don’t you Mildred?

Answer 29

This is all irrelevant anyway. Its my word against yours, and who do you think they’ll believe?

Question 30

Jim: Shit!

Answer 30

This is bad, this is so incredibly bad. Poetry?

Question 31

Millie: … I must have written something, if I signed them I would’ve just written “Mildred”

Answer 31

Well, that could be from any Mildred in the world.

Question 32

Millie: … probably “Open your delicate blossom,” a bunch of dyke malarkey

Answer 32

Kitty confuses easily. We can overcome that. The onus will be on Barbara to prove it was you.

Question 33

Jim: … with everyone else its guilty untill proven innocent. Why would it be any different with you?

Answer 33

Because Im Bob Martindale!

Question 34

Millie: They’ll compare handwriting. This is a disaster.

Answer 34

It will be delicate. But not impossible. God, backing you into a corner in front of the boss’s wife.

Question 35

Jim: Oh nobodys ever used that excuse before.

Answer 35

We never planned for this, Jim.

Question 36

Jim: Not just yet. I gotta think. Bob?

Answer 36

Talk to you tomorrow, Mildred.

Question 37

Mildred: Fellas, whatever we’re gonna do should be decided as a family.

Answer 37

Sure. But, you know, Norma’s not here. So we’ll all talk in the morning.