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The Captain and Alice are a miserable couple. The Captain is ill--and collapsed, which prompted Curt (Alice’s cousin) to look for a doctor. Alice believes that her husband simply exists to torment her, and the two of them “dance” around their misery and loneliness at the fort. Alice reminisces and wishes her life could have been different, while the Captain longs for the sense of power and respect he used to command. Curt is family, but also an outsider, and now thrust into this couple’s
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CAPTAIN. Curt is kind! And how he has changed.
ALICE. Yes, and for the better. It is too bad, however, that he must be dragged into our misery just now.
CAPTAIN. But good for us—I wonder just how he stands. Did you notice that he wouldn't speak of his own affairs?
ALICE. I did notice it, but then I don't think anybody asked him.
CAPTAIN. Think, what a life! And
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