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Alfieri:
This one’s name was Eddie Carbone, a longshoreman working the docks from Brooklyn Bridge to the breakwater where the open sea begins.

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Well, I’ll see ya, fellas.

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Louis:
You workin’ tomorrow?

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Yeah, there’s another day yet on that ship. See ya, Louis.

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Catherine:
Hi, Eddie!

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Where you goin’ all dressed up?

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Catherine:
I just got it. You like it?

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Yeah, it’s nice. And what happened to your hair?

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Catherine:
You like it? I fixed it different.
He’s here, B!

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Beautiful. Turn around, lemme see in the back.

Oh, if your mother was alive to see you now! She wouldn’t believe it.

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Catherine:
You like it, huh?

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You look like one of them girls that went to college. Where you goin’?

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Catherine:
Wait’ll B comes in, I’ll tell you something. Here, sit down.
Hurry up, will you, B?

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What’s goin’ on?

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Catherine:
I’ll get you a beer, all right?

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Well, tell me what happened. Come over here, talk to me.

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Catherine:
I want to wait till B comes in.
Guess how much we paid for the skirt.

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I think it’s too short, ain’t it?

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Catherine:
No! not when I stand up.

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Yeah, but you gotta sit down sometimes.

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Catherine:
Eddie, it’s the style now.

I mean, if you see me walkin’ down the street –

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Listen, you been givin’ me the willies the way you walk down the street, I mean it.

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Catherine:
Why?

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Catherine, I don’t want to be a pest, but I’m tellin’ you you’re walkin’ wavy.

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Catherine:
I’m walkin’ wavy?

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Now don’t aggravate me, Katie, you are walkin’ wavy! I don’t like the looks they’re givin’ you in the candy store. And with them new high heels on the sidewalk – clack, clack, clack. The heads are turnin’ like windmills.

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Catherine:
But those guys look at all the girls, you know that.

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You ain’t ‘all the girls’.

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Catherine:
What do you want me to do? You want me to –

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Now don’t get mad, kid.

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Catherine:
Well, I don’t know what you want from me.

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Katie, I promised your mother on her deathbed. I’m responsible for you. You’re a baby, you don’t understand these things. I mean like when you stand here by the window, wavin’ outside.

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Catherine:
I was wavin’ to Louis!

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Listen, I could tell you things about Louis which you wouldn’t wave to him no more.

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Catherine:
Eddie, I wish there was one guy you couldn’t tell me things about!

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Catherine, do me a favor, will you? You’re gettin’ to be a big girl now, you gotta keep yourself more, you can’t be so friendly, kid.

Hey, B, what’re you doin’ in there?

Get her in here, will you? I got news for her.

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Catherine:
What?

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Her cousins landed.

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Catherine:
No! B! Your cousins!

Beatrice:
What?

Catherine:
Your cousins got in!

Beatrice:
What are you talkin’ about? Where?

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I was just knockin’ off work when I got the word the ship is in the North River.

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Beatrice:
They’re all right?

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He didn’t see them yet, they’re still on board. But as soon as they get off he’ll meet them. He figures about ten o’clock they’ll be here.

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Beatrice:
And they’ll let them off the ship all right? That’s fixed, heh?

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Sure, they give them regular seamen papers and they walk off with the crew. Don’t worry about it, B, there’s nothin’ to it. Couple of hours they’ll be here.

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Beatrice:
What happened? They wasn’t supposed to be till next Thursday.

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I don’t know; they put them on any ship they can get them out on. Maybe the other ship they was supposed to take there was some danger – What you cryin’ about?

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Beatrice:
I’m – I just – I can’t believe it! I didn’t even buy a new table cloth; I was gonna wash the walls –

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Listen, they’ll think it’s a millionaire’s house compared to the way they live. Don’t worry about the walls. They’ll be thankful.
Whyn’t you run down buy a table cloth. Go ahead, here.

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Catherine: There’s no stores open now.
You was gonna put a new cover on the chair.
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Beatrice: I know – well, I thought it was gonna be next week! I was gonna clean the walls, I was gonna wax the floors. Catherine: Maybe Mrs. Dondero upstairs – Beatrice: No, hers is worse than this one. My God, I don’t even have nothin’ to eat for them!
Hey, hey! Take it easy
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Beatrice: No, I’m just nervous, that’s all. I’ll make the fish.
You’re savin’ their lives, what’re you worryin’ about the table cloth? They probably didn’t see a table cloth in their whole life where they come from.
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Beatrice: I’m just worried about you, that’s all I’m worried.
Listen, as long as they know where they’re gonna sleep.
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Beatrice: I told them in the letters. They’re sleepin’ on the floor.
Beatrice, all I’m worried about is you got such a heart that I’ll end up on the floor with you, and they’ll be in our bed.
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Beatrice: All right, stop it.
Because as soon as you see a tired relative, I end up on the floor.
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Beatrice: When did you end up on the floor?
When your father’s house burned down I didn’t end up on the floor?
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Beatrice: Well, their house burned down!
Yeah, but it didn’t keep burnin’ for two weeks!
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Beatrice: All right, look, I’ll tell them to go someplace else.
Now wait a minute. Beatrice! I just don’t want you bein’ pushed around, that’s all. You got too big a heart. What’re you so touchy?
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Beatrice: I’m just afraid if it don’t turn out good you’ll be mad at me.
Listen, if everybody keeps his mouth shut, nothin’ can happen. They’ll pay for their board.
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Beatrice: Oh, I told them.
Then what the hell. It’s an honor, B. I mean it. I was just thinkin’ before, comin’ home, suppose my father didn’t come to this country, and I was starvin’ like them over there . . . and I had people in America could keep me a couple of months? The man would be honored to lend me a place to sleep.
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Beatrice: You see what he is? Mmm! You’re an angel! God’ll bless you. You’ll see, you’ll get a blessing for this!
I’ll settle for my own bed.
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Beatrice: Go, Baby, set the table. Catherine: We didn’t tell him about me yet. Beatrice: Let him eat first, then we’ll tell him. Bring everything in.
What’s all that about? Where’s she goin’?
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Beatrice: No place. It’s very good news, Eddie. I want you to be happy.
What’s goin’ on?
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Beatrice: She’s got a job.
What job? She’s gonna finish school.
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Catherine: Eddie, you won’t believe it –
No – no, you gonna finish school. What kinda job, what do you mean? All of a sudden you –
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Catherine: Listen a minute, it’s wonderful.
It’s not wonderful. You’ll never get nowheres unless you finish school. You can’t take no job. Why didn’t you ask me before you take a job?
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Beatrice: She’s askin’ you now, she didn’t take nothin’ yet. Catherine: Listen a minute! I came to school this morning and the principal called me out of the class, see? To go to his office.
Yeah?
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Catherine: So I went in and he says to me he’s got my records, y’know? And there’s a company wants a girl right away. It ain’t exactly a secretary, it’s a stenographer first, but pretty soon you get to be secretary. And he says to me that I’m the best student in the whole class – Beatrice: You hear that?
Well why not? Sure she’s the best.
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Catherine: I’m the best student, he says, and if I want, I should take the job and the end of the year he’ll let me take the examination and he’ll give me the certificate. So I’ll save practically a year!
Where’s the job? What company?
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Catherine: It’s a big plumbing company over Nostrand Avenue.
Nostrand Avenue and where?
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Catherine: It’s someplace by the Navy Yard. Beatrice Fifty dollars a week, Eddie.
Fifty?
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Catherine: I swear. (Pause.)
What about all the stuff you wouldn’t learn this year, though?
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Catherine: There’s nothin’ more to learn, Eddie, I just gotta practice from now on. I know all the symbols and I know the keyboard. I’ll just get faster, that’s all. And when I’m workin’ I’ll keep gettin’ better and better, you see? Beatrice: Work is the best practice anyway.
That ain’t what I wanted, though.
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Catherine: Why! It’s a great big company –
I don’t like that neighborhood over there.
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Catherine: It’s a block and half from the subway, he says.
Near the Navy Yard plenty can happen in a block and a half. And a plumbin’ company! That’s one step over the water front. They’re practically longshoremen.
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Beatrice: Yeah, but she’ll be in the office, Eddie.
I know she’ll be in the office, but that ain’t what I had in mind.
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Beatrice: Listen, she’s gotta go to work sometime.
Listen, B, she’ll be with a lotta plumbers? And sailors up and down the street? So what did she go to school for?
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Catherine: But it’s fifty a week, Eddie.
Look, did I ask you for money? I supported you this long I support you a little more. Please, do me a favor, will ya? I want you to be with different kind of people. I want you to be in a nice office. Maybe a lawyer’s office someplace in New York in one of them nice buildings. I mean if you’re gonna get outa here then get out; don’t go practically in the same kind of neighborhood.
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Beatrice: Go, Baby, check on the supper. Think about it a little bit, Eddie. Please. She’s crazy to start work. It’s not a little shop, it’s a big company. Some day she could be a secretary. They picked her out of the whole class. What are you worried about? She could take care of herself. She’ll get out of the subway and be in the office in two minutes.
I know that neighborhood, B, I don’t like it.
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Beatrice: Listen, if nothin’ happened to her in this neighborhood it ain’t gonna happen no place else. Look, you gotta get used to it, she’s no baby no more. Tell her to take it. You hear me? I don’t understand you; she’s seventeen years old, you gonna keep her in the house all her life?
What kinda remark is that?
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Beatrice: Well, I don’t understand when it ends. First it was gonna be when she graduated high school, so she graduated high school. Then it was gonna be when she learned stenographer, so she learned stenographer. So what’re we gonna wait for now? I mean it, Eddie, sometimes I don’t understand you; they picked her out of the whole class, it’s an honor for her.
With your hair that way you look like a madonna, you know that? You’re the madonna type. (She doesn’t look at him.) You wanna go to work, heh, Madonna?
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Catherine: Yeah.
All right, go to work. Hey, hey! Take it easy! What’re you cryin’ about’!
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Catherine: I just – I’m gonna buy all new dishes with my first pay! I mean it. I’ll fix up the whole house! I’ll buy a rug!
And then you’ll move away.
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Catherine: No, Eddie!
Why not? That’s life. And you’ll come visit on Sundays, then once a month, then Christmas and New Year’s, finally.
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Catherine: No, please!
I only ask you one thing – don’t trust nobody. You got a good aunt but she’s got too big a heart, you learned bad from her. Believe me.
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Beatrice: Be the way you are, Katie, don’t listen to him.
You lived in a house all your life, what do you know about it? You never worked in your life.
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Beatrice: She likes people. What’s wrong with that?
Because most people ain’t people. She’s goin’ to work; plumbers; they’ll chew her to pieces if she don’t watch out. (To Catherine.) Believe me, Katie, the less you trust, the less you be sorry.
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Catherine: First thing I’ll buy is a rug, heh, B? Beatrice: I don’t mind. I smelled coffee all day today. You unloadin’ coffee today?
Yeah, a Brazil ship.
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Catherine: I smelled it too. It smelled all over the neighborhood.
That’s one time, boy, to be a longshoreman is a pleasure. I could work coffee ships twenty hours a day. You go down in the hold, y’know? It’s like flowers, that smell. We’ll bust a bag tomorrow, I’ll bring you some.
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Beatrice: Just be sure there’s no spiders in it, will ya? I mean it. I still remember that spider coming out of that bag he brung home. I nearly died.
You call that a spider? You oughta see what comes outa the bananas sometimes.
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Beatrice: Don’t talk about it!
I seen spiders could stop a Buick.
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Beatrice: All right, shut up!
Well, who started with spiders?
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Beatrice: All right, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it. Just don’t bring none home again. What time is it?
Quarter nine.
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Catherine: He’s bringin’ them ten o’clock, Tony?
Around, yeah.
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Catherine: Eddie, suppose somebody asks if they’re livin’ here. I mean if they ask.
Now look, Baby, I can see we’re gettin’ mixed up again here.
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Catherine: No, I just mean . . . people’ll see them goin’ in and out.
I don’t care who sees them goin’ in and out as long as you don’t see them goin’ in and out. And this goes for you too, B. You don’t see nothin’ and you don’t know nothin’.
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Beatrice: What do you mean? I understand.
You don’t understand; you still think you can talk about this to somebody just a little bit. Now lemme say it once and for all, because you’re makin’ me nervous again, both of you. I don’t care if somebody comes in the house and sees them sleepin’ on the floor, it never comes out of your mouth who they are or what they’re doin’ here.
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Beatrice: Yeah, but my mother’ll know –
Sure she’ll know, but just don’t you be the one who told her, that’s all. This is the United States government you’re playin’ with now, this is the Immigration Bureau. If you said it you knew it, if you didn’t say it you didn’t know it.
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Catherine: Yeah, but Eddie, suppose somebody –
I don’t care what question it is. You – don’t – know- nothin’. They got stool pigeons all over this neighborhood they’re payin’ them every week for information, and you don’t know who they are. It could be your best friend. You hear? (To Beatrice.) Like Vinny Bolzano, remember Vinny?
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Beatrice: Oh, yeah. God forbid.
Tell her about Vinny. (To Catherine.) You think I’m blowin’ steam here? (To Beatrice.) Go ahead, tell her. (To Catherine.) You was a baby then. There was a family lived next door to her mother, he was about sixteen –
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Beatrice: No, he was no more than fourteen, ’cause I was to his confirmation in Saint Agnes. But the family had an uncle that they were hidin’ in the house, and he snitched to the Immigration. Catherine: The kid snitched?
On his own uncle!
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Catherine: What, was he crazy?
He was crazy after, I tell you that, boy.
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Beatrice: Oh, it was terrible. He had five brothers and the old father. And they grabbed him in the kitchen and pulled him down the stairs – three flights his head was bouncin’ like a coconut. And they spit on him in the street, his own father and his brothers. The whole neighborhood was cryin’. Catherine: Ts! So what happened to him? Beatrice: I think he went away. I never seen him again, did you?
Him? You’ll never see him no more, a guy do a thing like that? How’s he gonna show his face? Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
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Catherine: Okay, I won’t say a word to nobody, I swear.
Gonna rain tomorrow. We’ll be slidin’ all over the decks. Maybe you oughta put something on for them, they be here soon.
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Beatrice: I only got fish, I hate to spoil it if they ate already. I’ll wait, it only takes a few minutes; I could broil it. Catherine: What happens, Eddie, when that ship pulls out and they ain’t on it, though? Don’t the captain say nothin’?
Captain’s pieced off, what do you mean?
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Catherine: Even the captain?
What’s the matter, the captain don’t have to live? Captain gets a piece, maybe one of the mates, piece for the guy in Italy who fixed the papers for them, Tony here’ll get a little bite . . .
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Beatrice: I just hope they get work here, that’s all I hope.
Oh, the syndicate’ll fix jobs for them; till they pay ’em off they’ll get them work every day. It’s after the pay-off, then they’ll have to scramble like the rest of us.
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Beatrice: Well, it be better than they got there.
Oh sure, well, listen. So you gonna start Monday, heh, Madonna?
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Catherine: I’m supposed to, yeah.
Well . . . I hope you have good luck. I wish you the best. You know that, kid.
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Catherine: You sound like I’m goin’ a million miles!
I know. I guess I just never figured on one thing.
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Catherine: What?
That you would ever grow up. I left a cigar in my other coat, I think.
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Catherine: Stay there! I’ll get it for you.
What are you mad at me lately?
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Beatrice: Who’s mad? I’m not mad. You’re the one is mad. Catherine: Here! I’ll light it for you! Don’t worry about me, Eddie, heh?
Don’t burn yourself. (Just in time she blows out the match.) You better go in help her with the dishes.
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Catherine: Oh! I’ll...
(Alone, Eddie stands upstage looking toward the house. Then he checks his watch, and stares at the smoke flowing out of his mouth. The lights go down, then come up on Alfieri.)

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