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Catherine and Marta are drinking together after some boys threw a smoke bomb at Marta’s house. Catherine has just received a message that her husband, Billy, has been declared missing in action. She is hysterical and laughing at the absurdity of the situation. Eve and Margaret arrive, looking to console Catherine, and are surprised to see her laughing and drinking with Marta, a German immigrant. The women discuss the horrors of war and try to console Catherine in her drunken stupor.
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Start: Catherine: Come in, come in! Join the festivities! Let our mirth be unparalleled! Some idiot in my high school class used to shout that at every party: let our mirth be unparalleled!
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End: Margaret: I can’t believe you’re sitting here talking about it like - like it was a nice spot for a Sunday picnic! We all know what happened over there! Catherine: I think you’d feel better if you had something to drink.
Citation: John Murrell,Waiting for the Parade, Talonbooks, 1980, pp. 51-59.
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