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JOANNA. Nota chance. I's too rare, It seldom ever happens any more, You know that. LAWRENCE It's almost two o'clock. I can’t wait. JOANNA. You've got to. Sit down and wait. I don’t mind going back on my word in front of Claypone, but not Edna, We should be an example to her. Why don’t you work on your book? LAWRENCE I decided to illustrate it mysclE. JOANNA I didn’t realize you were talented. LAWRENCE. I’m not, silly—but it’s going to be very, very modern. (To Edna.) No, you can’t! In color. (He gets pencil and paper at his desk and sits) Tell be about Miss Brown and getting lost in the woods. JOANNA And you must describe the woods in every possible detail. Every leaf and every bird. LAWRENCE Very well. Don’t bother me then, I’m going to write until two o'clock and then we'll go to bed. Now sit down. You too, Edna. And Claypone. Sic there. Now! And don’t say a word. (Pause while he thinks. Joanna sits) JOANNA Don’t chew your pencil. LAWRENCE Shhhh! JOANNA Well, I’m not sitting here and watching you devour a perfectly good pencil. Chew a cigar or something if you want to chew. LAWRENCE | Shhhhh! JOANNA (Pause. Helpfully) Would you care for a stick of gum? LAWRENCE No thank you, Joanna. Just sit there and be still. (Without Looking up.) Edna, stop fidgeting, (Pause. He thinks and writes a few words. Joanna becomes restless. Gets up and wanders to the Surprise Box. She winds the music box, he reacts. She stops. Then opens music box for one note. He snorts. She closes it, zurns around, and studies him.) JOANNA A boy looked at me on the subway last night. (Pause. No reaction.) He said “hello”! LAWRENCE When? (Pause. No reaction.) When? JOANNA I didn’t say anything, I looked the other way. Last night. LAWRENCE What'd he say? JOANNA He said hello and I curned my hand so he could see I was married and I looked the other way. LAWRENCE | Lie. You went away with him. JOANNA Lie, I looked the other way. (To Edna.) I did too, young lady, you just shut your mouth or I'll wash it out with soap! (To Lawrence.) 1 looked the other way and he got off the train. Now go on writing. LAWRENCE What'd he look like? JOANNA I didn’t notice. LAWRENCE What'd he /ook like? Home Free! 13 oS JOANNA 1 di ey didn’t notice, now go on writing. ( 10 Ed VOY Sauare jaw and a sweater with & ina.) I did ot, young lady, you shut up! a fy apa Some college boy, they'll fire with mart i may, them feel big. cae INA Well, I looked che other way and he got Boing to write? nnae LAWRENCE 1 can't do anything if you're BNE 5 just jealous because you don't have anything © JOANNA | Lie! I certainly am not. : LAWRENCE Well Tl do something else anyway. 1

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