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START: Alice: Morning, everybody.
Tom: It’s afternoon Alice.
Alice: Is it?
(She blows a kiss to Casimir. He blows one back.)
Am I the last one down?
Tom: Just about. Is Eamon still asleep?
Alice: He was up and about hours ago. He’s gone down to the village to visit his grandmother.
[... …]
END: Casimir: ‘You betrayed me, Bernard,’ he said to Father. ‘You betrayed me,’ and those cold eyes of his burning with--
(He breaks off suddenly because Claire has switched from the sonata to a waltz--E sharp major (Posth)--’The Bedtime Waltz’)
Listen! Listen! The Bedtime Waltz! Oh, that’s my favourite. That’s easily my favourite.
Brian Friel. Aristocrats. The Gallery Press, 1990. pp.24-28.
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