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Part I — Scene 3 Flashcards

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START OF SCENE

(Phone rings again.)

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Hello.—Yes, Mr. Gillam… She did? Are you sure?… How shocking! Thank you, Mr. Gillam—the hat is here.

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WINEMILLER. Alma! Alma, your mother———!

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I know, Father, Mr. Gillam just called. He told me she picked up a white plumed hat and he pretended not to notice in order to save you the embarrassment, so I just let him charge it to us.

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WINEMILLER. That hat looks much too expensive.

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It’s fourteen dollars. You pay six of it, Father, and I’ll pay eight.

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WINEMILLER. What an insufferable cross we have to bear!

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Now I have a thousand and one things to do before my club meeting tonight, so you work quietly on your picture puzzle or I shall take the hat back, plume and all.

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MRS. WINEMILLER. The pieces don’t fit! Don’t fit!

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Elm 362———

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JOHN. Hello?

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John!

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JOHN. Miss Alma?

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You recognized my voice?

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JOHN. I recognized your laugh.

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Ha-ha! How are you, you stranger, you!

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JOHN. I’m pretty well, Miss Alma. How’re you doing?

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Surviving, just surviving! Isn’t it fearful!

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JOHN. Uh-huh.

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You seem unusually laconic. Or perhaps I should say more than laconic.

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JOHN. I had a big night and I’m just recovering from it.

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Well, sir, I have a bone to pick with you!

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JOHN. What’s that, Miss Alma?

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The time of our last conversation on the Fourth of July, you said you were going to take me riding in your automobile.

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JOHN. Aw. Did I say that?

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Yes indeed you did, sir! And all these hot afternoons I’ve been breathlessly waiting and hoping that you would remember that promise. But now I know how insincere you are. Time and time again the four-wheeled phenomenon flashes by the rectory, and I have yet to put my—my quaking foot in it.

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MRS. WINEMILLER. My quaking foot in it!

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Mother! Shhhh!

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JOHN. What was that, Miss Alma? I didn’t understand you?

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I was just reprimanding you, sir! Castigating you verbally! Ha-ha!

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JOHN. What about, Miss Alma?

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Never mind. I know how busy you are!—Mother, hush, please!

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JOHN. I’m afraid we have a bad connection.

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I hate telephones. I don’t know why, but they always make me laugh as if someone were poking me in the ribs! I swear to goodness they do!

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JOHN. Why don’t you just go to your window and I’ll go to mine, and we can holler across?

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The yard’s so wide I’m afraid it would crack my voice! And I’ve got to sing at somebody’s wedding tomorrow.

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JOHN. You’re going to sing at a wedding?

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Yes. “The Voice That Breathed O’er Eden.” And I’m as hoarse as a frog!

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JOHN. Better come over and let me give you a gargle.

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Nasty gargles—I hate them!

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MRS. WINEMILLER. Nasty gargles—I hate them!

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Mother, shhh!—please! As you no doubt have gathered, there is some interference at his end of the line! What I wanted to say is—you remember my mentioning that little club I belong to?

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JOHN. Aw! Aw, yes! Those intellectual meetings!

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Oh, now, don’t call it that. It’s just a little informal gathering every Wednesday, and we talk about the new books and read things out loud to each other!

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JOHN. Serve any refreshments?

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Yes, we serve refreshments!

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JOHN. Any liquid refreshments?

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Both liquid and solid refreshments.

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JOHN. Is this an invitation?

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Didn’t I promise I’d ask you? It’s going to be tonight!—at eight at my house, at the rectory, so all you’ll have to do is cross the yard!

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JOHN. I’ll try to make it, Miss Alma.

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Don’t say try as if it required some Herculean effort! All you have to do is———

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JOHN. Cross the yard! Uh-huh—reserve me a seat by the punch bowl.

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That gives me an idea! We will have punch, fruit punch, with claret in it. Do you like claret?

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JOHN. I just dote on claret.

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Now you’re being sarcastic!

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JOHN. Excuse me, Miss Alma, but Dad’s got to use this phone.

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I won’t hang up till you’ve said you’ll come without fail!

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JOHN. I’ll be there, Miss Alma. You can count on it.

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—Au revior, then! Until eight.

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MRS. WINEMILLER. Alma’s in love—in love!

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Now I am expecting another music pupil and I have to make preparations for the club meeting, so I suggest that you——— Will you go to your room? Yes, Nellie, coming, Nellie! All right, stay down here then But keep your attention on your picture puzzle or there will be no ice-cream for you after supper. Hello, Nellie.

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NELLIE. Oh, Miss Alma!

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ALMA. What is it, Nellie? Has something happened at home? Oh, now, Nellie, stop that! Whatever it is, it can’t be that important!

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NELLIE. Miss Alma, haven’t you ever had—crushes?

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What?

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NELLIE. Crushes?

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Yes—I suppose I have.

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NELLIE. Did you know that I had a crush on you, Miss Alma?

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No, Nellie.

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NELLIE. Why do you think that I took singing lessons?

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I supposed it was because you wish to develop your voice.

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NELLIE: Oh, you know, and I know, I never had any voice. I had a crush on you, though. Those were the days when I had crushes on girls. Those days are all over—now I have crushes on boys. Oh, Miss Alma, you know about Mother, how I was brought up so nobody nice except you would have anything to do with us—Mother meeting the trains to pick up the traveling salesmen—and bringing them home to drink and play poker—all of them acting like pigs, pigs, pigs! Well, I thought I’d always hate men. Loathe and despise them. But last night——Oh!

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Hadn’t we better run over some scales until you are feeling calmer?

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NELLIE. I’d heard them downstairs for hours but didn’t know who it was—I’d fallen asleep—when all of a sudden my door banged open. He’d thought it was the bathroom!

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Nellie, I’m not sure I want to hear any more of this story.

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NELLIE. Guess who it was?

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I couldn’t possibly guess.

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NELLIE. Someone you know. Someone I’ve seen you with.

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Who?

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NELLIE. The wonderfullest person in all the big wide world! When he saw it was me he came and sat down on the bed and held my hand and we talked and talked until Mother came up to see what has happened to him. You should have heard him bawl her out. Oh, he laid the law down! He said she ought to send me off to a girls’ school because she wasn’t fit to bring up a daughter! Then she started to bawl him out. You’re a fine one to talk, she said, you’re not fit to call yourself a doctor!

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John Buchanan?

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NELLIE. Yes, of course, Dr. Johnny.

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Was—with—your—mother?

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NELLIE. Oh, he wasn’t her beau! He had a girl with him, and Mother had somebody else!

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Who—did—he—have?

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NELLIE. Oh, some loud tacky thing with a Z in her name!

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Zacharias? Rosa Zacharias?

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NELLIE. Yes, that was it! But him! Oh, Miss Alma. He’s the wonderfullest person that I———

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Your mother was right! He isn’t fit to call himself a doctor! I hate to disillusion you, but this wonderfullest person is pitiably weak.

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NELLIE. Someone is calling him now!

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Yes, these people who shout his name in front of his house are of such a character that the old doctor cannot permit them to come inside the door. And when they have brought him home at night, left him sprawling on the front steps, sometimes at daybreak—it takes two people, his father and the old cook, one pushing and one pulling, to get him upstairs. All the gifts of the gods were showered on him—but all he cares about is indulging his senses!

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NELLIE. Here he comes down the steps! Look at him jump!

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Oh.

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NELLIE. Over the banisters. Ha-ha.

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Nellie, don’t lean out the window and have us caught spying.

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MRS. WINEMILLER. Show Nellie how you spy on him! Oh, she’s a good one at spying. She stands behind the curtain and peeks around it, and———

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Mother!

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MRS. WINEMILLER. She spies on him. Whenever he comes in at night she rushes downstairs to watch him out of this window!

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Be still!

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MRS. WINEMILLER. She called him just now and had a fit on the telephone! Alma’s in love—Alma’s in love!

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Mother, be still! Nellie, Nellie please go.

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NELLIE. All right, Miss Alma. I’m going. Good night, Mrs. Winemiller!

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If ever I hear you say such a thing again, if you ever dare to repeat such a thing in my presence or anybody else’s—then it will be the last straw! You understand me?

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ALMA. If ever I hear you say such a thing again, if you ever dare to repeat such a thing in my presence or anybody else’s—then it will be the last straw! You understand me?

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Yes, you understand me. You act like a child, but you have the devil in you. And God will punish you—yes! I’ll punish you, too. I’ll take your cigarettes from you and give you no more. I’ll give you no ice-cream either. Because I’m tired of your malice. Yes, I’m tired of your malice and your self-indulgence. People wonder why I’m tied down here! They pity me—think of me as an old maid already! I’m young. Still young!

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ALMA. They pity me—think of me as an old maid already! I’m young. Still young!

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It’s you—it’s you, you’ve taken my youth away from me! I wouldn’t say that—I’d try not to even think it—if you were just kind, just simple! But I could spread my life out like a rug for you to step on and you’d step on it, and not even say “Thank you, Alma.” Which is what you’ve done always—and now you dare to tell a disgusting lie about me—in front of that girl?

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MRS. WINEMILLER. Don’t you think I hear you go to the window at night to watch him come in and———

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Give me that plumed hat, Mother! It goes back now, it goes back!

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MRS. WINEMILLER. Fight! Fight!

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Heaven have mercy upon us!

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