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| AMANDA: Deception? Deception? |
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(shakily) How was the D.A.R. meeting?
(AMANDA shakes her head)
Didn't you go to the D.A.R. meeting, Mother? |
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| AMANDA: I did not have the strength--to go to the D.A.R. In fact, I did not have the courage! I wanted to find a hole in the ground and hide myself in it forever! |
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(faintly) Why did you do that, Mother?
(AMANDA rips poster)
Why are you-- |
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| AMANDA: Why? Why? How old are you, Laura? |
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| AMANDA: I thought that you were an adult; it seems that I was mistaken. |
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| Please don't stare at me, Mother. |
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| AMANDA: What are we going to do, what is going to become of us, what is the future? |
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Has something happened, Mother?
Mother, has--something happened? |
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| AMANDA: I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered--by life... |
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| Mother, I wish that you would tell me what's happened! |
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| AMANDA: As you know... to speak to your teachers about your having a cold and ask them what progress they thought you were making down there. |
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AMANDA: I went to the typing instructor... my hopes and ambitions for you--just gone up the spout, just gone up the spout like that.
(LAURA winds Victrola)
What are you doing? |
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| Oh! (releases handle and sits back down) |
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| AMANDA: Laura, where have you been going when you've gone out pretending that you were going to business college? |
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| I've just been going out walking. |
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| It is. I just went walking. |
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| AMANDA: Where did you walk to, Laura? |
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| All sorts of places--mostly in the park. |
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| AMANDA: Even after you;d started catching that cold? |
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It was the lesser of two evils, Mother.
I couldn't go back there. I--threw up--on the floor! |
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| AMANDA: ...because you wanted to make me think you were still going to Rubicam's Business College? |
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| It wasn't as bad as it sounds. I went inside places to get warmed up. |
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| I went in the art museum and the bird houses at the Zoo. I visited the penguins every day! Sometimes I did without lunch and went to the movies. Lately I've been spending most of my afternoons in the Jewel Box, that big glass house where they raise the tropical flowers. |
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| AMANDA: You did all this just to deceive me, just for deception? Why? |
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| Mother, when you're disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus' mother in the museum! |
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| AMANDA: Of course, some girls do marry. Haven't you ever liked some boy? |
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| Yes. I liked one once. I came across his picture a while ago. |
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| AMANDA: He gave you his picture? |
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| No, it's in the yearbook. |
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| AMANDA: Oh--a high school boy. |
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| Yes. His name was Jim. Here he is in "The Pirates of Penzance." |
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| The operetta the senior class put on. He had a wonderful voice and we sat across the aisle from each other Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in the Aud. Here he is with the silver cup for debating! See his grin? |
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| AMANDA: He must have had a jolly disposition. |
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| He used to call me--Blue Roses. |
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| AMANDA: Why did he call you such a name as that? |
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| When I had that attack of pleurosis--he asked me what was the matter when I came back. I said pleurosis--he thought that I had said Blue Roses! So that's what he always called me after that. Whenever he saw me, he'd holler, "Hello, Blue Roses!" I didn't care for the girl that he went out with. Emily Meisenbach. Emily was the best dressed girl at Soldan. She never struck me, though, as being sincere... It says in the Personal Section--they're engaged. That's--six years ago! They must be married by now. |
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| AMANDA: Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man. Sister, that's what you'll do! |
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