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Merv Kant is an American visiting London, and through a mutual friend was invited to Sara Goode’s birthday dinner. Merv is interested in Sara, but she has been distant and trying to avoid any conversation with him. However, the two of them often find themselves alone while Merv tries to engage Sara in conversation. She eventually gives in, and discovers that she and Merv have a lot in common.
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SARA: Aren’t you going home to bed too? It’s very late.
MERV: Not when I can watch you clean.
SARA: You enjoy watching women clean?
[... … …]
End:
SARA: Please, Merv, pick a Sinatra song and let’s go upstairs.
MERV: (puts on “Just the Way You Look Tonight.” He begins singing) Lovely, don’t you ever change, Keep that breathless charm …” Take it, Sara …
SARA: (quietly) Merv, I just can’t sing for you.
For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Wendy Wasserstein, The Sisters Rosensweig, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993, pp. 52-59.
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