Beth Scene

FRANK: I’m not going to give up Jerome.

Daddy, Wait for me.

MR. SPENCER: Don’t be a fool, Elizabeth.

I said ‘wait’. Mommy will be right back, you go with Grandpa.

MR. SPENCER: Your mother would turn over in her grave.

FRANK JR.: (Calls from offstage)

I want you to give up, Frank.

FRANK: It’s not life without my son—

I’m not out to hurt you Frank, but I will hurt you if I have to.

FRANK: How is Frankie?

How do you think he is, Frank? All I keep thinking is ‘I could have stopped it.’ I was warned about Gussie. I could have stopped it.

FRANK: Do you still love me?

Did you sleep with her, Frank?

FRANK: Do you still love me?

[NOT A DAY GOES BY]

[END NOT A DAY GOES BY]

Did you sleep with Gussie?

FRANK: I love you, Beth.

Did you want that life so much you went with her?

FRANK: I’ll always love you.

But did you?

FRANK: Yes.

Frank, I want us to—

FRANK JR: Interrupts

No, Frankie, no. You’re to stay with—

FRANK: He’s my child, too!

end scene.