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The young woman has accepted her boss’s marriage proposal, and the
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Start: Husband: Well, here we are.
Young Woman: Yes, here we are.
Husband: Aren’t you going to take your hat off-- stay a while?... This is alright, isn’t it? Huh? Huh?
Young Woman: It’s very nice.
[... ... ...]
End: Young Woman: I want her now-- I want somebody.
Husband: You got me, haven’t you?
Young Woman: Somebody-- somebody--
Husband: There’s nothing to cry about. There’s nothing to cry about.
Treadwell, Sophie, Plays by American Women: 1900-1930, Applause, 1981, pp. 195-200.
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