Scene 7 Prompts Flashcards
(12 cards)
And if I seem to tell this like a dream, it was that way. Several moments arrived in the course of the two talks we had when it occurred to me how – almost transfixed I had come to feel. I had lost my strength somewhere.
(Eddie enters, removing his cap, looks thoughtfully out.)
I looked in his eyes more than I listened – in fact, I can hardly remember the conversation. But I will never forget how dark the room became when he looked at me; his eyes were like tunnels. I kept wanting to call the police, but nothing had happened. Nothing at all had really happened.
So in other words, he won’t leave?
M w i t a r a r u f t.
A o l o t t f i g a e r.
My wife is talkin’ about renting a room upstairs for them. An old lady on the top floor is got an empty room.
Alfieri
What does Marco say?
H j s t. M d s m.
He just sits there. Marco don’t say much.
Alfieri
I guess they didn’t tell him, heh? What happened?
I d k; M d s m.
I don’t know; Marco don’t say much.
Alfieri
What does your wife say?
N t m i t h. S w a t?
Nobody’s talkin’ much in the house. So what about that?
Alfieri
But you didn’t prove anything about him. It sounds like he just wasn’t strong enough to break your grip.
I t y I k - h a r.
S t d w i c b i.
E a m, i y c a t m a y h i i y h, t m c g y t r k o f.
H d g m t r k o f, I k i, M A, t g a r.
I’m tellin’ you I know – he ain’t right. Somebody that don’t want it can break it. Even a mouse, if you catch a teeny mouse and you hold it in your hand, that mouse can give you the right kind of fight. He didn’t give me the right kind of fight, I know it, Mr. Alfieri, the guy ain’t right.
Alfieri
What did you do that for, Eddie?
T s h w h i!
S s w s, o a f a!
H m t o i t g!
S w d I g d n? T m w t d.
To show her what he is! So she would see, once and for all! Her mother’ll turn over in the grave!
So what do I gotta do now? Tell me what to do.
Alfieri
She actually said she’s marrying him?
S t m, y. S w d I d?
She told me, yeah. So what do I do?
Alfieri
This is my last word, Eddie, take it or not, that’s your business. Morally and legally you have no rights, you cannot stop it; she is a free agent.
D y h w I t y?
Didn’t you hear what I told you?
Alfieri
I heard what you told me, and I’m telling you what the answer is. I’m not only telling you now, I’m warning you – the law is nature. The law is only a word for what has a right to happen. When the law is wrong it’s because it’s unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now. Let her go. And bless her.
Somebody had to come for her, Eddie, sooner or later.
You won’t have a friend in the world, Eddie! Even those who understand will turn against you, even the ones who feel the same will despise you! Put it out of your mind! Eddie!
C m w t I B. T.
I w t r s. I i. T o t. T r.
F-f-o S S, B, y. G f. H?
I j a t n, t a. H?
Connect me with the Immigration Bureau. Thanks. I want to report something. Illegal immigrants. Two of them. That’s right. Four-forty-one Saxon Street, Brooklyn, yeah. Ground floor. Heh?
I’m just around the neighborhood, that’s all. Heh?
Louis
Go bowlin’, Eddie?
N, I d h.
No, I’m due home.
Louis
Well, take it easy.
I s y.
W i e?
I s w i e?
I’ll see yiz.
Where is everybody?
I says where is everybody?
