Act II pt.2

Question 1

J: …strange animal.

Answer 1

It’s your skin-

Question 2

J: …skin, do I?

Answer 2

It’s just that - it seems to be changing colour all the time. It’s going green. It’s hardening as well.

Question 3

J: …on my nerves.

Answer 3

Perhaps it’s more serious than I thought. We must get the doctor.

Question 4

J: …your own business.

Answer 4

All right. It was for your own good.

Question 5

J: …good for me.

Answer 5

You’re breathing very hard.

Question 6

J: …dead any moment.

Answer 6

Don’t say things like that to me, Jean. You know very well I’m your friend.

Question 7

J: …in your friendship.

Answer 7

That’s a very hurtful thing to say.

Question 8

J: …hurt about.

Answer 8

My dear Jean-

Question 9

J: …your dear Jean.

Answer 9

You’re certainly in a very misanthropic mood today.

Question 10

J: …being misanthropic.

Answer 10

You’re probably still angry with me over our silly quarrel yesterday. I admit it was my fault. That’s why I came to say I was sorry.

Question 11

J: …are you talking about?

Answer 11

I told you just now. You know, about the rhinoceros.

Question 12

J: …run them down.

Answer 12

You know very well that I shall never stand in your way.

Question 13

J: …straight for it.

Answer 13

I’m sure you’re right. But I feel you’re passing through a moral crisis. You mustn’t excite yourself, it’s bad for you.

Question 14

J: …irritate me as well.

Answer 14

But whatever’s the matter with your skin?

Question 15

J: …it for yours.

Answer 15

It’s gone like leather.

Question 16

J: …It’s weatherproof.

Answer 16

You’re getting greener and greener.

Question 17

J: …drinking again.

Answer 17

I did yesterday, but not today.

Question 18

J: …past orgies.

Answer 18

I promised you to turn over a new leaf. I take notice when friends like you give me advice. And I never feel humiliated - on the contrary.

Question 19

J: …Brrr!

Answer 19

What did you say?

Question 20

J: …I felt like it.

Answer 20

Do you know what’s happened to Boeuf? He’s turned into a rhinoceros.

Question 21

J: …to Boeuf?

Answer 21

He’s turned into a rhinoceros.

Question 22

J: Brrr!

Answer 22

Come on, now, stop joking.

Question 23

J: …my own house.

Answer 23

I didn’t say you couldn’t.

Question 24

J: …cool myself down.

Answer 24

He must have a fever.

Question 25

J: Brrr!

Answer 25

He's got the shivers. I'm jolly well going to phone the doctor.

Question 26

J: ...just disguised.

Answer 26

He looked very serious about it, I assure you.

Question 27

J: ...that's his business.

Answer 27

I'm sure he didn't do it on purpose. He didn't want to change.

Question 28

J: How do you know?

Answer 28

Well, everything led one to suppose so.

Question 29

J: ...it on purpose?

Answer 29

I'd be very surprised. At any rate, Mrs Boeuf didn't seem to know about it.

Question 30

J: ...just a fool!

Answer 30

Well, fool or no fool...

Question 31

J: ...he was up to.

Answer 31

You're wrong there, Jean - it was a very united family.

Question 32

J: ...Hum, hum, brrr!

Answer 32

Very united. And the proof is that-

Question 33

J: ...kept to himself.

Answer 33

I shouldn't make you talk, it seems to upset you.

Question 34

J: ...it relaxes me.

Answer 34

Even so, let me call the doctor, I beg you.

Question 35

J: ...better for it.

Answer 35

How can you say a thing ilke that? Surely you don't think - ?

Question 36

J: ...extraordinary in that.

Answer 36

There's nothing extraordinary in it, but I doubt if it gave him much pleasure.

Question 37

J: And why not, pray?

Answer 37

It's hard to say exactly why; it's just something you feel.

Question 38

J: ...life as we have.

Answer 38

As long as they don't destroy ours in the process. You must admit the difference in mentality.

Question 39

J: ...life is superior?

Answer 39

Well, at any rate, we have our own moral standards which I consider incompatible with the standards of these animals.

Question 40

J: ...moral standards.

Answer 40

What would you put in their place?

Question 41

J: Nature!

Answer 41

Nature?

Question 42

J: ...Morality's against Nature.

Answer 42

Are you suggesting we replace our moral laws by the law of the jungle?

Question 43

J: ...suit me fine.

Answer 43

You say that. But deep down, no one-

Question 44

J: ...primeval integrity

Answer 44

I don't agree with you at all.

Question 45

J: I can't breathe.

Answer 45

Just think a moment. You must admit that we have a philosophy that animals don't share, and an irreplaceable set of values which it's taken centuries of human civilisation to build up.

Question 46

J: ...we'll be better off.

Answer 46

I know you don't mean that seriously. You're joking! It's just poetic fancy.

Question 47

J: Brrr! (2)

Answer 47

I'd never realised you were a poet.

Question 48

J: Brrr! (3)

Answer 48

That's not what you believe fundamentally - I know you too well. You know as well as I do that mankind -

Question 49

J: ...about mankind!

Answer 49

I mean the human individual, humanism.

Question 50

J: ...old sentimentalist.

Answer 50

But you must admit that the mind -