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Question 1

Florence
What else did he say?

Olive
It was nothing.

Answer 1

Florence
What else did he say?

Question 2

Olive
But as a woman, you’re crazy as a bedbug.

Answer 2

Florence
(She walks to the kitchen door, stops and says deliberately:.)
Oh, really?…Is that what the short, hairless cowboy said?….Well, tell him he’ll never find another woman like me if he lives to be a thousand.
(She goes into the kitchen with dishes.)

Question 3

Olive
….Which bedroom do you want? One you can see New Jersey, the other, you can see a guy who sleeps naked.

Answer 3

Florence
(She comes out of the kitchen) You know I’m glad. Because he finally made me realise. It’s over! It didn’t sink in until just this minute. (Continues to tidy up)

Question 4

Olive
You want some sleeping pills? Take some sleeping pills.

Answer 4

Florence
I can’t swallow them.

Question 5

Olive
You can suck them all night.

Answer 5

Florence
I don’t think I believed him until just now. My marriage is really over.

Question 6

Olive
Florence, lets go to bed. I have another career besides you.

Answer 6

Florence
Somehow it doesn’t seem so bad now. I mean I think I can live with this thing.

Question 7

Olive
Good. Live with it tomorrow. Go to bed tonight.

Answer 7

Florence
I will. I just want to start rearranging our life. Get things in order. Do you have a pad? I want to make out the menus for the week.

Question 8

Olive
NO MENUS! Don’t plan my food. I don’t want to make any promises to a roast chicken. Please go to bed!!

Answer 8

Florence
Can I please be alone for a few minutes? I have to collect my thoughts. (Starts to pick up the debris from the game.) I think better when I’m cleaning.

Question 9

Olive
I won’t sleep if I hear you in here. You want to clean, go downstairs and clean the elevator.

Answer 9

Florence
You’ll appreciate it in the morning. Once I get this junk out of here, you’ll see furniture you never knew you had. Go on. Go to bed. I’ll see you for breakfast. (She is on her hands and knees cleaning up under the table.)

Question 10

Olive
You’re not going to do anything big, are you? Like putting up wallpaper?

Answer 10

Florence
Ten minutes. That’s all I’ll be. I promise. (Kiss) Olive!

Question 11

Olive
(Who has started for the bedroom)
What?
(FLORENCE climbs on the dining table and begins dusting the fixture)

Answer 11

Florence
I never realised you were so lonely. It must have been awful for you without anyone else here.

Question 12

Olive
(Re-enters, looks at her, with foreboding.) Well…. We’ll see!

Answer 12

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