Plays by Susan Glaspell
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HARRY: Getting breakfast. (_all the while doing so_) CLAIRE: I'll not have you in my place! HARRY: If you take all the heat then you have to take me. CLAIRE: I'll show you how I have to take you. (_with her hands begins scooping upon him the soil_ ANTHONY _has prepared_) HARRY: (_jumping up, laughing, pinning down her arms, putting his arms around her_) Claire--be decent. What harm do I do here? CLAIRE: You pull down the temperature. HARRY: Not after I'm in. CLAIRE: And you told Tom and Dick to come and make it uneven. HARRY: Tom and Dick are our guests. We can't eat where it's warm and leave them to eat where it's cold. CLAIRE: I don't see why not. HARRY: You only see what you want to see. CLAIRE: That's not true. I wish it were. No; no, I don't either. (_she is disturbed--that troubled thing which rises from within, from deep, and takes_ CLAIRE. _She turns to the Edge Vine, examines. Regretfully to_ ANTHONY, _who has come in with a plant_) It's turning back, isn't |
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