By Edna O'Brien
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DAUGHTER foolish Daddy … foolish foolish Daddy, (scolding voice) I’m looking at you. Daughter starts off to pin the sheet to the wall. DAUGHTER All my neighbors adore him … of them have crushes on him … They ask for his autograph simply because he’s fairly well-known … he involves institution on commencing day with my mom, my mom donning silly outfits and clunky jewellery … after all I want him … One Christmas Eve it used to be snowing and he lifted me away from bed and stated (conspiratorial voice), “Would you love to determine the tree in Rockefeller heart? ” and he placed Mummy’s fur coat over me and we snuck out and obtained right into a cab … it was once magic, the tree, the lighting, the snow, ice-skating after dead night, and my father maintaining me in a protracted fur coat, and other people taking a look at us as though we have been fans. sure, fanatics. SCENE SIX Early morning. gentle in Mistress’s zone. She is donning denims, hair tossed, bemused. MISTRESS Oh God, oh God, oh God … I did exhibit a few gumption … at the beginning, yet then his hand, his thief’s hand, got here below my skirt and he acknowledged, “You couldn't have placed these stockings and people garters on simply to cross instantly home,” and that i stated, “You may be correct, Henry, you may be correct. ” spouse in Daughter’s quarter. Daughter interpreting interview. DAUGHTER Actress tells why she takes on tricky roles. WIFE (brisk) pass on. DAUGHTER (scanning) Her deep entreating voice, her tragic heroines … (skipping) “Oriental fury,” the pathos of a disenchanted queen … WIFE Her years. DAUGHTER Doesn’t say. WIFE ’Course it doesn’t say. (intent voice) an extended lock of her hair. DAUGHTER no longer the voodoo crap that the maid did with snake oil and chicken’s blood. WIFE definite, the voodoo crap with snake oil and cockerel’s blood. DAUGHTER (cutting in) It’s ghoulish. WIFE It labored on her husband. DAUGHTER He bought run over. WIFE He had it coming. (sweeter voice) O, my priceless snake oil and hot cockerel’s blood, unhair her head, dim her eyes (vicious) … This malefaction needs to be stopped … a cuckoo in our nest. DAUGHTER I hate it for those who act. WIFE Make her uninteresting of tongue and dwarfish … a bad pastiche of what she was once … DAUGHTER you want to positioned your self up for auditions … bit elements … WIFE this isn't appearing … consider my pulse … the man’s long gone mad … Her gypsy’s lust. Mistress takes up the tale. MISTRESS (on the ground or stretched on staircase) Your hair … your hair … saved happening approximately my hair … We mustn’t fall in love, I stated … converse for your self, he stated … Ran his brow all alongside the wall … (imitating Henry) i'm loss of life, Egypt … death. It was once there, no, no longer there. There. (She kisses the wall. ) someone can have are available; says to count on him in any respect hours, he’ll get a stepladder, bribe the fellow on the level door, (rueful) i'm loss of life, Egypt … death. spouse has encounter to eavesdrop. DAUGHTER (calls throughout) Mummy. what's love? WIFE Ask your father. Ask his whore. SCENE SEVEN Mistress comes downstage, sits on bench. spouse watches pantherlike and follows. WIFE Ah, there you're. MISTRESS so that you has to be Pauline.