Her Heart

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.