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Mr. Zero works with Daisy Devore in the counting office of a
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Daisy: Three ninety-eight. Forty-two cents. A dollar fifty. A dollar fifty. A dollar twenty-five. Two dollars. Thirty -nine cents. Twenty-seven fifty.
Zero: (petulantly) Speed it up a little, cancha?
Daisy: What’s the rush? To-morrer’s another day.
Zero: Aw, you make me sick.
[... … …]
End:
Daisy: We used to be so nice and friendly together when I first came here. You used to talk to me then.
Zero: Maybe she’ll die soon. I noticed she was coughin’ this mornin’.
Daisy: You used to tell me all kinds o’ things. You were goin’ to show them all. Just the same, you’re still sittin’ here.
For the complete scene, see the video or the script edition cited here: Elmer Rice, The Adding Machine. Samuel French, 1956. pp.9-17.
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