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After supper, Alvaro returns to Serafina’s house. He has been to a
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Alvaro: Everything in my life turns out like this!
Serafina: Git up, git up, git up!--you village idiot’s grandson! There is people watching you through that window, the--Strega next door … (He rises slowly.) And where is that shirt I loaned you?
[... … …]
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Alvaro: It has to do with a very good-looking truck driver, not living now but once on a time thought to have been a very well-known character at the Square Roof. His name was … (He turns questioningly to the door where Serafina is standing.) What was his name, Baronessa?
Serafina: (hardly breathing) Rosario delle Rose!
For the full extended scene, please refer to: Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo. New Directions, 2010. pp. 98-103.
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