Scene 4

Question 1

ANN: What about dinner?

Answer 1

Have some beer.

Question 2

ANN: You won’t? Well - we were relying on the money.

Answer 2

Ann. I can hear little Ambrose calling for you upstairs.
Probably bumped his head again - I’ll see Mister Thomas out.

Question 3

THOMAS: Of course.

Answer 3

I thought we were friends.

Question 4

THOMAS: I feel bad about your father. It was our mistake, not his.

Answer 4

The other day, when you tried to kiss me. I liked it

Question 5

THOMAS: You didn’t give me that impression.

Answer 5

Didn’t I?

Question 6

THOMAS: You hit me rather hard across the face.

Answer 6

Isn’t that what women are supposed to do when young men surprise them? You can try again, if you like.

Only, promise me one thing?

Question 7

THOMAS: What?

Answer 7

The moles. Give the job to my father.

There were good days, when I tried to like him and almost succeded. And bad days, when our love was a quiet tug-of-war.

My first time was rushed. We did it here, in the very barn that I’m buried in. I used to like coming here when I was alive. The way the daylight creeps in through the broken slats. The warmth of hay bales and the sound of chickens outside.
It’s a peaceful place to wait, until I am discovered.