Overview
- Female: 1
- Male: 1
Context
Ed Williams is the local Creamery Man. He travels down the road with a flirtatious smile to all the girls in the county. He has just left the house of Lucinda, a pretty but vapid Yankee girl, and he swears he is in love. Nina is just as taken by Ed as the rest of the girls around but unlike Lucinda, she is German and so lives her life a bit differently from Ed’s expectations. When Ed visits Nina to deliver dairy to her home, he regales her with words of his newfound love. Nina, so taken in by
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ED Say Nina, you ever been in love?
NINA Oh, I don’t tink so. No. Vott ist like?
ED Well I’ll tell you. When you are in love, all the world melts away. And all you can see is that person’s face. You go past a field of wildflowers, all you can think of is bringing that person to see them, or maybe picking some to bring to ‘em.
NINA I like flowers. I tried to plant flower garden, but Mutti, my mother, she says nein. She says why waste land where vegetables could be?
ED Well, that’s a shame. Every gal oughta have flowers.
NINA Yah. What else is beink in love?
ED I don’t even know how to describe it, but it’s like your heart is pounding and stopped at the same time. It’s like Christmas when the choir practices up and sings them harmonies. That’s the closest I can come to describin’ it, someday you’ll know what it feels like.
NINA I tink I do now. Dese vords. No Cherman boys talk like this.
ED Aw sure they do.
NINA Nein. Cherman boys talk of pigs und cows und barley. You talk like this. Oh my gutness. Tell me, Edvard. Dis girl, die one you speak off. Ist she Deutsch, or Yankee.
ED Dutch! I should say not!
NINA Oh. Vott ist wrong mit... Dutch.
ED Well... nothing exactly. I’ve seen me some pretty enough Dutch Gals... but take you, for example.
NINA Vere chould vee go?
ED Well, look at ya. Walkin’ around with no shoes.
NINA Choos, yah.
ED And workin’ out in the fields ever day.
NINA But I...
ED I don’t fault you for it. It’s your parents. They are the ones making you work out here. And even without a hat. Your skin is all dirty and brown... and freckled. No Yankee parents would let their daughter do such a thing. Yankee gals sit indoors.
NINA So... you don’t tink I could effer catch a Yankee boy.
ED Well now... that’s an interesting question. There’d have to be a lot of changes.
NINA I can change. Oh Edvard Creamary Man, tell me... tell me...
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