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b - stella

hmmm

b - baby my baby sister

blanche what is the matter with you

b - hes left

stan yes

b - will he be back

hes gone to get the car greased why

b - why ive been held crazy stella when i found out you’d been insane enough to come back in here after what happened i started to rush in after you

im glad you didn’t

b - what where you thinking of answer me what what

please blanche sit down and stop yelling

b - all right stella i will repeat the question quietly now how could you come back in this place last night why you must’ve slept with him

blanch id forgotten how excitable you are youre making much too much fuss about this

b - am i

yes you are blanche i know how it must’ve seemed to you and im awfully sorry it had to happen but it wasn’t anything as serious as you seem to take it in the first place when men are drinking and playing power anything can happen its always a power keg he didn’t know what he was doing he was as good as a lamb when i came back and hes really very very ashamed of himself

b - and that makes it alright

no its isn’t alright for anyone to make such a terrible row but people do sometimes stanleys always smashed things, why on our wedding night soon as we came i here he snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place smashing the lightbulbs with it

b - he did what

he smashed all the lightbulbs with the heel of my slipper

b - and you you let him didn’t run didn’t scream

i was sort of thrilled by it , eunice and you had breakfast

b - do you suppose i wanted any breakfast

there’s some coffee left on the stove

b - youre so matter of fact about it stella

what other can i be, hes taken the radio to get it fixed it didn’t land on the pavement so only one tube was smashed

b - and your standing there smiling

what do you want me to do

b - pull yourself together and face the facts

what are they in your opinion

b - in my opinion youre married to a madman

no

b - yes you are your fix is worse than mine is only youre not being sensible about it im going to do something get hold of myself and make myself a new life

yes

b - but you’ve given in and that isn’t right youre not old you can get out

im not in anything i want to get out of

b - what stella

i said i am not in anything i have a desire to get out of, look at the mess in this room and those empty bottles they went through two cases last night he promised this morning that her was going to quit having these poker parties but you know how long such a promise will keep, oh well its his please like mine is movies and bridge people have got to tolerate each others habits i guess

b - i don’t understand you i don’t understand your indifference, is this a chinese philosophy you’ve cultivated

is what what

b - this suffering about and mumbling one tube smashed beer bottles mess in the kitchen as if nothing out of the ordinary has happened are you deliberately shaking that thing in my face

no

b - stop it, let go of that broom, i won’t have you cleaning up for him

then who’s going to do it are you

b - i i

no i didn’t think so

b - oh let me think if only my mind would function we’ve got to get hold of some money that’s the way out

i guess that money is always nice to get hold of