Act I. Scene 2.

Question 0

Wrong number

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Listen, darling, give me a hand with this cockeyed seating arrangement, will you?- George doesn’t want the Grants at the bridal table. He says they’re fast. He-

Question 1

-hello! -Hello!

Answer 1

Who was that?

Question 2

Hello kids

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Sandy!

Question 3

Where’s mother?

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She’s around. How’s New York?- How’s Sue?- How’s the baby?

Question 4

There is a party tonight, of course?

Answer 4

Aunt Geneva’s throwing a monster.

Question 5

Sue’s and my wedding present comes by registered mail, Tracy- and a pretty penny it set me back.

Answer 5

You’re a bonny boy, Sandy. I love you

Question 6

Where’s George, Tracy?

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He’s staying in the Gatehouse. He still had business things to clear up and I thought he’d be quieter there.

Question 7

What about this absurd article about your father and- er- Tina Mara in Destiny? Can’t it be stopped?

Answer 7

About Father and- let me see!

Question 8

In a minute. I’m busy.

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Oh! The absolute devils- who publishes Destiny?

Question 9

Sidney Kidd- also Dime, also Spy, the picture sheet. I worked on Dime for two summers you know that.

Answer 9

Stopped? It’s got to be! I’ll go to him myself

Question 10

It took about three hours, but I finally got through to him

Answer 10

What happened?

Question 11

I think I fixed things

Answer 11

How?

Question 12

I had a copy of the piece made, and sent it around to his flat, with a little note saying,”how do you like it.”

Answer 12

You are a fella

Question 13

Let him worry a little

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Let him worry a lot!

Question 14

What’s all this.

Answer 14

“Mr. Connor and-?”

Question 15

They’re quite nice. You’ll like them.

Answer 15

You asked people to stay in this house without even asking us?

Question 16

I think it’s very peculiar indeed.

Answer 16

I think it’s more peculiar than that. I think it’s paranoiac

Question 17

Keep your shirt on – I just drifted into them and we sort of got to talking about what riots weddings are as a rule, and they’ve never been to a Philadelphia one, and –

Answer 17

You’re lying, Sandy. – I can always tell.

Question 18

Sandy: now look here Tracy-

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Look where? “Elizabeth Imbrie” – I know that name! She’s a – wait – damn your eyes, Sandy, she’s a photographer!

Question 19

Sandy: for a fact?

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For a couple of facts – and a famous one!

Question 20

Sandy: well it might be nice to have some good shots of the wedding.

Answer 20

What are they doing here?

Question 21

Dina: I do

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I know – now I know! They’re from destiny – destiny sent them!

Question 22

Sandy: You’re just a mass of intuition, Tracy.

Answer 22

Well, they can go right back again.

Question 23

Sandy: No, they can’t. Not till they get their story.

Answer 23

Story? What story?

Question 24

Sandy: industrial Philadelphia, historical Philadelphia – and then the third –

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I’m going to be sick

Question 25

Yes, dear, fashionable Philadelphia.

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I am sick.

Question 26

Margaret: but why? Surely there are other families who –

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Yes – why not the Drexels oror Biddles or the qu’est-qu-c’est Cassats?

Question 27

And of course there’s your former marriage and your looks and your general prowess in golf and foxhunting, with a little big game on the side, and your impending second marriage into the coalfields –

Answer 27

Never mind that exclamation

Question 28

Margaret: is there’s no such thing as privacy anymore?

Answer 28

Only in bed, mother, and not always there.

Question 29

Sandy: anyhow I thought I was licked – and what else could I do?

Answer 29

A trade eh.? So we’re to let them publish the inside story of my wedding in order to keep Fathers wretched little affair quiet!

Question 30

Sandy: it’s hard to tell with the future president of the United States.

Answer 30

What’s the writer’s name again?

Question 31

Sandy: they were handling the industrial end

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My hearts breaking for them

Question 32

Margaret: it’s an absolute invasion two strange people tramping through the house prying and investigating –

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Maybe were going through a revolution without knowing it. Hello, is Mr. Briggs there? – This is Tracy lord, Mr. Briggs. – Look I wonder if you happen to have on hand any books by Macaulay Connor? You have!- Could you surely send them out this afternoon?-Thanks, Mr. Briggs, you’re sweet. - if they’ve got to have a story, I’ll give them a story – I’ll give them one they can’t get through the mails.

Question 33

Sandy: O – O – I was afraid of this –

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Who the hell do they think they are, barging in on peaceful people – watching every little mannerism – jotting down notes on how we sit, and stand, and talk, and eat and move-

Question 34

Dina: will they do that?

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– And all in the horrible snide corkscrew English! – Well, if we have to submit to it to save father’s face – which incidentally doesn’t deserve it – I’m for giving them a picture of home life that will stand their hair on end

Question 35

The fact is, she’ll probably be Sweetness and Light to the neck

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Oh, will I?

Question 36

I should think it would look awfully funny to the , Fathers not being here for his own daughters wedding.

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Would you now?

Question 37

that’s alright I fixed that too

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How do you mean you did?

Question 38

Tracy will you promise to behave like a lady, if only for my sake?

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I’ll do my best Mrs. lord, I don’t know how good that is.

Question 39

Go out on a dress

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Yes mother

Question 40

There are too many legs around here

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Suds! I’ll be pure Victorian, all frills and ruffles, conversationally chaste as an egg… Hello Uncle Willie where did you come from?

Question 41

Why aren’t you being married in a church Tracy?

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I like the parlor here so much better

Question 42

It isn’t what I want to say-

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Is it enough if they can simply prove that it is true?

Question 43

I could collect substantial damages – and would, if it took me all winter.

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Suppose the other way around suppose they printed things that weren’t true

Question 44

Oh good gracious

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Come on- out. What was she like, uncle Willy?

Question 45

Who

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British guinea?