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**amaryllis:**
Amaryllith – Amaryllith.
*(SHE moves closer to WINTHROP, stoops and looks up into his face as HE continues to stare at his feet. SHE turns to MRS. PAROO with surprise.)*
He’s crying.
*(WINTHROP bolts out of the room. MRS. PAROO follows him.)*
\ Why does he get so mad at people – just because he lisps?
**marian:**
It’s not only because he lisps. That’s just part of it, Amaryllis.
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**amaryllis:**
What’s the other part?
marian Never mind, dear. It’s just that he never talks very much.
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**amaryllis**
Not even to you and your mother?
**marian**
No, dear. We all have to be a little patient.
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**amaryllis**
I’m patient. Even though he doesn’t ever talk to me – but I do him – every night – I say goodbye to him on the evening star. You have to do it the very second you see it, too, or it doesn’t count.
\ “Goodnight, my Winthrop, goodnight. Sleep tight.”
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*(Starts to cry.)*
**marian**
There, darling, don’t cry, you have lots of time. If not Winthrop, there’ll be someone else.
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**amaryllis**
Never! I’ll end up an old maid like you.
I’m sorry, Miss Marian. Can I play my cross-hand piece?
**marian**
**May** I play my –
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**amaryllis**
May I play my cross-hand piece?
**marian**
You may.
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**amaryllis**
See, without a sweetheart you have no one to say goodnight to on the evening star.
**marian**
I know, Amaryllis. For the time being, just say goodnight my – someone. You can put the name in when the right someone comes along.
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**amaryllis**
All right. It’s better than nothing.
**marian**
Yes it is… now you can play your cross-hand piece.
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**amaryllis**
*(Settling herself.)*
Now I ***may*** play my cross-hand piece.
**marian**
(Offstage)
Hello, Mama. Keep on, Amaryllis. I’ll be there in a minute.
\ (she plays it wrong)
\ C natural, dear. Now your exercises.
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**mrs. paroo**
I don’t remember the liberry bein’ open last Fourth a’ July.
**marian**
It was, Mama, all evening. Mama, a man with a suitcase has been following me all over town.
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**mrs. paroo**
Oh – who?
**marian**
I never saw him before.
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**mrs. paroo**
Did he say anything?
**marian**
He tried.
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**mrs. paroo**
Did you say anything?
Mama, of course not.
*(AMARYLLIS begins her exercises.)*
Now don’t dawdle, Amaryllis.
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sol, do, la, re, ti, mi, a little slower,
and please keep the fingers curved
as nice and high as you possibly can.
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Don’t get faster, dear.
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*(MARIAN heads into the house, winds a metronome, and puts it on the piano)*
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**mrs. paroo**
*(calling to MARIAN from outside)*
If you don’t mind my saying so, it wouldn’t have hurt you to find out what the gentleman wanted.