Overview
- Female: 2
- Male: 1
Context
Mom, Dad, and Sheila are, in their own ways and for their own reasons, filled with excitement and expectations as they await the arrival of Leo. For her part, Mom’s excitement is tinged with anxiety, fearing that the visit may be a retreat, her son having somehow been hurt and staggering home. For Dad, his excitement is infused with hope that Leo, the only member of the family who truly brings joy to Mom’s heart, will serve as tonic for his wife, beset as she is with bouts of despair. And
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DAD: Where's Leo?
MOM: (holding a package; stricken) It's not Leo.
DAD: What?
MOM: It's from Leo.
(DAD takes the package to examine.)
SHEILA: He's not coming?
MOM: I don't know.
DAD: It says here it came open in shipment... Postal Reclamation Center...
SHEILA: I'll just bet he's not coming, the little stinker.
MOM: So open it.
DAD: I'm trying. It's taped every which way.
MOM: Here.
(MOM takes the envelope to the table and commences prying it open with the garden clippers.)
SHEILA: I know what it is.
DAD: What?
SHEILA: (mysteriously) Go ahead. You open it.
(From inside the envelope, MOM pulls out a thick manuscript – 638 pages thick. A pause.)
DAD: What is it?
MOM: I don't know yet.
DAD: Is there a note or anything?
MOM: No.
(DAD takes up the manuscript.)
DAD: Is it a book he wrote? It doesn't have a title.
SHEILA: I got one too.
DAD: Yeah?
SHEILA: About a week ago. Same thing. No note, nothing.
DAD: What is it?
SHEILA: It's a thing he wrote.
MOM: Let me see it.
(MOM takes the manuscript, pages through it.)
DAD: Did you read it?
SHEILA: A little, yeah. It's interesting.
DAD: So what is it?
SHEILA: I don't know. It's a thing.
DAD: A thing?
SHEILA: I don't know what you'd call it.
DAD: Well what's it about?
SHEILA: It's about everything.
(DAD looks at SHEILA. MOM looks at SHEILA.)
SHEILA: Don't look at me. (seeing Leo approach) There he is. Ask him.
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