Act II, Scene I

Question 1

Fairy: Are you reading?

Answer 1

Yes, dear.

Question 2

Fairy: Is it interesting?

Answer 2

Very.

Question 3

Fairy: I’m not disturbing you, am I?

Answer 3

Now what ever makes you think that? What’s the matter, Fairy May?

Question 4

Fairy: Nothing. It’s just that no one has said they loved me this live-long day.

Answer 4

Why, yes, they have, Fairy.

Question 5

Fairy: Oh, no they haven’t. I’ve been waiting.

Answer 5

I heard Florence say it at the dinner table.

Question 6

Florence: Did I?

Answer 6

She said, “Don’t eat too fast, Fairy.”

Question 7

Fairy: Was that saying she loved me?

Answer 7

Of course. People say it when they say, “Take an umbrella, it’s raining”– or “Hurry back”– or even “Watch out, you’ll break your neck.” There’re hundreds of ways of wording it– you just have to listen for it, my dear.

Question 8

Fairy: My dentist said I have perfect occlusion. Do you think he was telling me he loved me?

Answer 8

What else? Why, the first day I met my husband, I was riding horseback and he said I had a good seat. I knew immediately he loved me.

Question 9

Fairy: Oh, thank you. I’ve been missing so much. Oh! My dentist loves me.

Answer 9

Now– what else would you like to have me clear up for you?

Question 10

Florence: Mrs. Savage?

Answer 10

Yes?

Question 11

Florence: I’m keeping score and the boys won’t help me. What’s seven and five and four?

Answer 11

Forty-nine.