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Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I got to go back and wait on table! What’ll all those girls say when they see me? And I ain’t even got the price of my ticket!

We can fix that.

I’ll get a lawyer, I will! I wish to God I hadn’t never heard of no wops!

Don’t start cryin’. [He tries to comfort, her.]

You take your hands off me and get my things.

All right.

[''He looks at her a moment, his distress quite evident. Then he gives it up and goes into the bedroom. As he opens the door, the and  are audible. He closes the door after him''.

''picks up the few belongings she has left about the room. She stands a moment holding them, looking about her, at the four walls, at the country outside''.