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EAST:
EAST: Hello.
GLORY: (To him.) Hello. (Resumes looking at the sky.)
EAST:
EAST: I thought I saw someone. (Little beat.) I was about to go to bed. I saw you from my window… (Beat.) Can I- ? … Is there something I can do for you?
GLORY: (To him.) Oh, no. I’m just here to see the northern lights. (Back to the sky.)
EAST:
EAST: Okay. Okay. It’s just- it’s awful late and you’re in my yard…
GLORY: Oh, I hope you don’t mind! I’ll only be here tonight. I’ll see them tonight. The northern lights. And then I’ll be gone. I hope you don’t mind-
EAST:
EAST: (Looking out.) Is that your tent?
GLORY: Yes.
EAST:
EAST: You’ve pitched a tent…
GLORY: So I have a place to sleep,
EAST:
EAST: In my yard…
GLORY: After I see them, I hope you don’t mind.
EAST:
EAST: Well, it’s not that I-
GLORY: Do you mind?
EAST:
EAST: Well, I don’t know if-
GLORY: Oh, no, I think you mind!
EAST:
EAST: No, it’s not that I mind-
GLORY: No, you do! You do! Oh, I’m so sorry! I didn’t think you would! I didn’t think-. You see, it says in your brochure >
EAST:
EAST: My brochure?
GLORY: That people in Maine wouldn’t mind…. blah b;ah…. I’m a hiker. It is true?
EAST:
EAST: Well-
GLORY: That they’ll just let you stay in their yards…. and did you know that Maine is the only state in the country that’s attached to only one other state?!?
EAST:
EAST: Um-
GLORY: It is!! Feels like the end of the world, and here I am at the end of the world, and I have nowhere to go, so I was counting on staying here, unless it’s not true, I mean is it true?
EAST:
EAST: Well-
GLORY: Would you let a hiker who was where she needed to be just camp out in your yard for free?
EAST:
EAST: Well-
GLORY: I mean, if a person really needed to,
EAST:
EAST: Well-
GLORY: Really really needed to?
EAST:
EAST: Well, if a person really needed to, sure, but-
GLORY: Oh, I’m so glad, then! Thank you! Oh my gosh! I need that!
EAST:
EAST: Oh. Here.
GLORY: Thank you.
EAST:
EAST: Sure. Okay-. Okay… So you’re lookin’ for a place to see the northern lights from?
GLORY: Yeah, just tonight.
EAST:
EAST: Well, you know, you might not see ‘em tonight, ‘cause you never really know if-
GLORY: Oh, no. I’ll see them….. bla bla… And boy, you have a good sky for it. There’s lots of sky here.
EAST:
EAST: Used to be a potato farm.
GLORY: I was gonna say- no trees in the way. And it’s flat! Makes for a big sky! So- you’re a farmer?
EAST:
EAST: No. Used to be a farm. I’m a repairman.
Glory: Oh.
EAST:
EAST: Fix things.
GLORY: Oh (Laughs).
EAST:
EAST: What?
GLORY: You’re not a lobster man.
EAST:
EAST: No…
GLORY: I guess I thought that everyone from Maine was a lobster man and talked in that funny… way like they do in Maine, and you don’t talk that way.
EAST:
EAST: Nope. You’re not Down East. You’re up north. And this is how we talk up north, pretty much.
GLORY: Oh
EAST:
EAST: Plus, ocean’s a couple hundred miles away. Be an awful long ride to work if I was a lobster man.
