Act Two - Part 3

Question 1

Mother, it’s not all right.

Answer 1

Oh, I don’t know. It seems to me a perfectly fair word.

Question 2

I don’t quite follow that, my dear.

Answer 2

I don’t know - I just thought of you in connection with it. After all, you are in there a good deal, Anthony. Bathing and shaving - well, you do take a long time.

Question 3

I think it’s a very silly game and we ought to stop it.

Answer 3

Yes.

Question 4

Human. Really! Miriam!

Answer 4

I just meant, Anthony, that lust after all is a - human emotion.

Question 5

I don’t agree with you, Miriam. Lust is not a human emotion. It is depraved.

Answer 5

Very well, Anthony. I’m wrong.

Question 6

Suppose we play Twenty Questions?

Answer 6

Yes.

Question 7

Did you say - dull?

Answer 7

What I meant, Anthony, was that the Hot Springs was not very gay that season. All those old people sitting on the porch all day, and nothing to do at night.

Question 8

Wall Street? What do you mean by that, Miriam?

Answer 8

I don’t know what I meant, Anthony. Nothing.

Question 9

But you must have meant something, Miriam, or you wouldn’t have put it down.

Answer 9

It was just the first thing that came into my head, that’s all.

Question 10

But what does it mean? Sex- Wall Street.

Answer 10

Oh - I don’t know what it means, Anthony. It’s just that you’re always talking about Wall Street, even when -

Would you mind terribly, Alice, if we didn’t stay for dinner? I’m afraid this game has given me a headache.

Question 11

But you’re coming to dinner tomorrow night, aren’t you?

Answer 11

I’m afraid we have an engagement tomorrow night.

Question 12

Of course we’ll stay to dinner - tonight.

Answer 12

I have a very bad headache, Tony.

Question 13

Are you ready, Miriam?

Answer 13

Yes, Anthony.

Question 14

Oh - it’s been very nice to have met you all.

Answer 14

Yes, lovely.