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Florence has just discovered her younger lover, Tom, in the arms of her son’s ex-fiancee, Bunty, and she realizes that she has been rejected for a younger woman. Up in her bedroom, she is hysterical and in a jealous rage. She pours out her anger to her good friend Helen, who tries to get her to calm down. Helen lays out the truth to Florence--neither she or her son, Nicky, are capable of love and they were entirely unsuited to Tom and Bunty. Helen refuses to pander to Florence and tries to get
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START: Helen: Florence, what is the use of going on like that?
Florence: I wish I were dead!
Helen : It’s so cowardly to give way utterly — as you’re doing.
Florence: I don’t care — I don’t care!
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END: Helen : A little while ago you were really suffering for once, and in a way I was glad because it showed you were capable of a genuine emotion. Now you’re glossing it over — smarming it down with your returning vanity, soon you won’t be unhappy any more — just vindictive.
Florence: Don’t go on at me like that — I’m too wretched.
Helen {going to her): Florence dear, forgive me, but it’s true — and I don’t want it to be
Noel Coward. The Vortex. Ernest Benn Ltd, 1924. pp.87-92
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