CHAIM: You - you’re very - you’re how I remember you. [...] Do you remember me?

(Simultaneous)

CHAYA: Chaim -

CHAIM: Chaim Moscovitch - yes! I was at shul, I heard your father’s name, I said: “Yankel Yankovitch with a daughter Chaya?” I said “What are the chances! I’ve met your daughter: she was the first thing I saw in Canada!”

[... … …]

CHAIM: You’ll tell your father it won’t work out between us?

CHAYA thinks for a second, gazing at him. Then stands. But she doesn’t usher him to the door. She goes to the samovar and pours CHAIM more tea. Sets it in front of him. He doesn’t move. He keeps looking at her.

CHAYA: Sit. Drink.

Citation: Hannah Moscovitch, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, Concord Theatrics, 2017.