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The young woman has accepted her boss’s marriage proposal, and the two are now on their honeymoon together. They enter their hotel room for the first time and the air is heavy with the stressful potential of their nuptial evening. The young woman, still fighting against revulsion towards her husband, knows very well what duties are now expected of her in the bedroom, and is delaying the inevitable as much as possible. Her new husband, still completely oblivious to his wife’s fear and loathing,
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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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