Plays by Susan Glaspell
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CLAIRE: You'll do it, Elizabeth.
ELIZABETH: Well, I don't know. Quite a job, I'll say. Of course, I'd have to do it in my way. I'm not going to teach or preach or be a stuffy person. But now that--(_she here becomes the product of a superior school_) values have shifted and such sensitive new things have been liberated in the world-- CLAIRE: (_low_) Don't use those words. ELIZABETH: Why--why not? CLAIRE: Because you don't know what they mean. ELIZABETH: Why, of course I know what they mean! CLAIRE: (_turning away_) You're--stepping on the plants. HARRY: (_hastily_) Your mother has been working awfully hard at all this. ELIZABETH: Well, now that I'm here you'll let me help you, won't you, mother? CLAIRE: (_trying for control_) You needn't--bother. ELIZABETH: But I _want_ to. Help add to the wealth of the world. CLAIRE: Will you please get it out of your head that I am adding to the wealth of the world! |
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