Act 3 Flashcards
D: She’s gone. Didn’t even look back.
Some crook you are - stealing a roll of wallpaper instead of that Dutch masterpiece.
D: All right - so it wasn’t the missing “Mallard and Apple.” Everybody makes mistakes. Even Adam and Eve.
At least they knew an apple when they saw it.
D: And who was it stuck her hand in a rat trap?
Look - let’s not stop to bicker here - we can do that at home. We want to find that damned Vanderdam
D: Then you start upstairs - room by room - and I’ll start in the basement.
If you find it - don’t you dare go off and leave me holding the sack.
D: Do you think I’d do that to you?
For seventy-five thousand dollars you’d do it to your grandmother.
D: That’s not a basement. It’s the Smithsonian Museum - with dust. Why not? I can use the energy.
[tap on shoulder]
D: Don’t DO that! I’ve got a weak bladder.
She’s here.
D: Who’s here?
Opal. She came back.
D: Where is she?
Upstairs. I saw her just in time and hid. Then I waited and came down the stairs.
D: Did she see you?
Not unless she’s got eyes in the back of her head - which I doubt.
D: What’ll we do?
Hit her over the head with something.
D: What! A teabag?
She must have an old tire iron or tennis racket. Look! Isn’t that a baseball bat?
D: I don’t know. I never played.
It’s a bat.
D: And she’s a bat. They belong together.
Can you do it?
D: For seventy-five thousand I’d play ball with the devil.
We’ll hide here and when she passes, crack down.
D: I wish I’d played ball when I was a kid. I wouldn’t be so nervous.
Were you too poor?
D: No, I was a sissy.
You can’t miss. Her head is bigger than a baseball - and twice as dense.
O: Well, look who’s here. Fer heaven’s sake, I never heard you come in. I mus’ be gittin’ deaf too. Come in - come in. Glad to see you folks. I wuz wonderin’ whin you’d come back.
Oh, we - we were out this way and thought we’d drop in.
D: We wanted to explain yesterday. Queenie became suddenly ill and we couldn’t wake you - you were such a convincing Juliet
Such reality! Such truth!
O: Well it wuz mighty kind of you to leave that note an the ten bucks. Set down an have a piece of cake.
Well, we only have a few minutes. Did you say you were just going out?
O: Well, not now I got guests. I’ll wait till you folks havta go first.
Oh, don’t let us detain you.
D: How very kind of you. It hits me - here.
What is it?
O: It’s somepin’ you ain’t never seen before an’ even when you see it you ain’t gonna believe it.
This delay is killing me.
O: I hope I ain’t holdin’ you folks up.
Oh not at all. We intend to stay with you.
