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Lady runs the dry goods store with her husband Jabe. Jabe has recently returned home from hospital after a cancer operation. He is slowly dying and Lady comes downstairs late at night to ring the pharmacist for more medicine for Jabe. She is surprised by Val, a newcomer to the town who is looking for work and has returned to the store after a brief visit earlier in the day. He complains about an earlier attempt to seduce him and explains to Lady that he is not that type of man. Lady finally
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START: LADY: Ge’ me the drug store, will you? I know the drug store’s closed, this is Mrs Torrance, my store’s closed, too, but I got a sick man here, just back from the hospital, yeah, yeah, an emergency, well, wake up Mr. Dubinsky, keep ringing till he answers, it’s an emergency! (Pause, she whispers under her breath) I wish I was dead, dead, dead…
VAL: (Quietly) No, you don’t, ma’am.
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END: VAL: And I’m going to be steady and honest and hard-working to please you and by the way, I can solve your sleeping problems.
LADY: How?
VAL: A lady osteopath taught me how to make little adjustments in the neck bone and spine: It will give you a sound natural sleep. Good night!
Tennessee Williams. Orpheus Descending. Dramatists Play Service, 1989. Pp. 22-30
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