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 said I was cold. I know now what his standards were.

[ ''appears at the windows, back. Neither sees him''.

He wants someone soft and easy it’s the barmaid touch. They say it’s in all men a taste for commonness, sexually. That’s what it is. This is all a blind. He’s pretending!

How dare you? (In a passion of rage) How dare you?

[She seizes her shoulders and shakes her violently and furiously.

(breaking down into a chair, half wailing) : Oh, why are you all against me?

[ comes into the room quickly and quietly.

It’s all such a ghastly muddle, and it’s so rotten for all of us.

(rising) : Why don’t you say, “Jenny, you mustn’t be rude to visitors”? It’s how you feel, I know.





[His mind drifts away from her, and his gaze goes to the door.