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whore, that’s his English whore that’s been phoning all evening; can’t you tell from our accents?”
    MISTRESS    Does he know what poisons you are dipped in?
    Wife laughs lustily and takes Mistress’s bare arm, strokes it.
    WIFE    I know you fancy women … I’ve checked you out … you shared a suite in Philadelphia with a German girl … the two of you stayed in that suite all day, all day until it was time to go to the theater … she was your dresser was she not … made you sheer dresses with tiny waists. Kiss me … go on.
    Wife kisses her.
    WIFE    (
passionate
) You’d like us both, Henry and me … that’s what you’d really like … Henry and me together … because then you would not be an outsider … you would be one of us … Henry watching me kissing you kissing your cunt … Henry coming into you and into me and into both … part of one another … that’s what you really want and that’s what Henry wants … but he doesn’t know it yet, it will all just unfold … like seascape.
    MISTRESS    (
shrill, mirthless laugh
) That’s
very
bizarre.
    Wife brings her face close to Mistress’s face.
    WIFE    What am I … a mind reader? … I know what you’re thinking … (
imitating an English accent
) Oh, Henry, please come through that door and fuck us both and put an end to all this torture and all this untruth and all this agony and all this jealousy …
    Mistress stands pushing Wife away.
    Wife touches Mistress’s lips with her forefinger, then kisses her, a longer kiss.
    WIFE    (
cont.
) You’re a piece of work, Clarissa.
    Wife goes.
    Mistress pours herself a drink and drinks in one gulp.
    MISTRESS    I just pictured her going home and saying, “She has a luscious mouth, your whore.” For one awful second I yielded … I was unfaithful to him with his own wife.
    S CENE S EVENTEEN
    Daughter is tripping out and is standing, one foot on a chair, the other foot on the table, her arm stretched out calling a boy. Wife comes in but Daughter is unaware of anything except her trip. Disco music starts during her monologue as she creates a rock concert in her own mind and is the star of it. Strobe lighting. She is wearing a fur coat, inside out.
    Daughter addresses imaginary audience.
    DAUGHTER    Zack … Zachary … I can’t see you … you’re hiding … hidey hidey (
whisper
) I’m wearing a see-through skirt with nothing on underneath … it seems we’re going to the same party … you want dialogue … uh huh … that’s tough … we’re hooking up with Venus … you’ve got to take care of her … she gets catatonic after two lines (
She takes a tiny pill box and shakes it playfully.
) We get our goodies down the hill from the school at the pizza place … My mother would have a hissy fit. (
giggling
) We kind of know who to hit up … weird guy … Zack … you’ve got to get groovy … I mean university professor or not groovy is where it’s at … enlightenment baby … Venus got blown away the first time … whiney about her belly flab. (
wooing
) To be perfectly profane about it Zack, it’s good good shit. (
more alert
) You what … What … You’re notcoming? Never mind … it’s not an issue … screw you. (
to her audience
) They’ve rented this huge space for the Homecoming Party … a bunch of us going … do you want to hear my dirty little secret … I’m performing … I’m the guest performance artist … cee-voo-play … (
rousing
) Ladies and gentlemen will you please welcome Miss … Brandy … Macready …
    Deafening applause as Daughter starts to ad-lib from “I’ll Take Care of You/It’s a Man’s World.”
    DAUGHTER    (
cont.
)