Scene 13: New Music

(sung) Hearing those melodies climb…

I’m home! Mother! Grandfather!

[BRIGIT] Who the hell are you?

Who in God’s name are you?

[BRIGIT] All right, that’s enough, the back door for you, you brazen peddler.

This is my house. I live here.

[BRIGIT] Oh Holy Mother, it’s the master!

You were in short pants.

[MOTHER] Did you get all the way to the North Pole?

No, only Admiral Perry and his first officer, Mr. Henson did.

[MOTHER] Well, they’re professionals.

I got 72 degrees, 46 minutes, a very respectable way.

[MOTHER] I should say so!

My left heel kept freezing.

[MOTHER] I think you should pay me a salary.

What are you holding?

[LITTLE BOY] We found him in the garden.

Who’s Sarah? What is that music?

[MOTHER] He’s hoping Sarah will eventually take pity and come down to him.

How long has this been going on?

[MOTHER] I think what we are witnessing is, in fact, a courtship of the most stubborn Christian kind.

Yes, if you call a courtship what has already produced a bastard child.

I find that an unkind remark.

I find your welcoming such a situation unfathomable.