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Goddam! You wait, you dirty

[He flourishes the broken gun, She covers her eyes with her hands. arrives, sees what  ''is doing, gives a cry, springs on him, wrenches the gun away. The struggle upsets balance and he topples headlong off his crutches.  screams''.]

Oh, his leg!

[ drops the gun and bends over him.]

I tried to catch him. [ bellows are terrifying to hear.] Did you hurt yourself, Tony?

[ answer is untranslatable into speech.]

[As she pulls a chair over]: For God’s sake, pick him up, can’t you?

[ fights him, trying to choke him, and sinks into the chair, howling with pain and fury.]

All right now, Tony! Steady!