"Any word from the children?" "The camp director called today." "It seems peter doesn't want to learn how to swim." "You'll have to write him." "Yes." "it's wonderful music, that schubert." "Mmm." "Man:" "It's on the program next week at carnegie hall." "oh, no, not again." "Please fix it, jim." "Oh, damn." "There's not even a hum." "I'm afraid it's completely broken." "Should I take it down" "To that lecherous handyman in the basement?" "No, uh..." "I'll buy a new radio." "I'll go by the shop tomorrow." "coming!" "All right, watch it, watch it." "Oh, my." "Your toes, lady, your toes." "Will you watch your feet, please?" "Oh!" "Thank you." "Watch your toes, your toes." "Oh, my..." "All right, lady, where do you want it?" "Oh, I don't know!" "It's so big!" "How 'bout over there?" "Well..." "Watch your feet." "That's it; all right." "Oh..." "It's so big." "But it's so ugly." "Hey, lady, it's only a radio." "A radio's a radio." "Listen, sign here, will you, please?" "I'll plug it in while you sign, okay?" "Okay, lady, thank you." "Have a good day, huh?" "Uh-huh." "Oh!" "Ugly or not, it does have a lovely tone, doesn't it?" "oh, this is madness." "Jim?" "Oh, I'm so glad I reached you." "They just delivered the new radio." "Uh, what?" "it's enormous." "No." "But something strange happened." "I just went to..." "Oh." "Oh, of course, darling." "It can wait until tonight." "Bye." "This is the top of the line, irene." "You just have to know how to tune it, that's all." "Well, there." "Listen to that chopin." "Did you pay those bills?" "The ones from saks?" "Hmm?" "Yes." "For christ's sake, kathy, do you always" "Have to play the piano when I get home?" "I play every chance I get." "I'm at the office all day." "So am I!" "Why don't you leave that lousy little job and stay home?" "Then you can diddle on the piano" "To your small heart's content." "Did you hear that?" "On the radio?" "The voices, they were fighting." "Must be a play or something." "I don't think it is a play." "I thought that you didn't get a raise this year." "Jim, come here." "You have to hear this." "I wish to god I'd never bought you that damn thing." "I wish to god I'd never met you." "That's odd, it sounds like the elevator." "Have you seen my garters?" "Button me up." "Honey, have you seen my garters?" "Just button me up and I'll find your garters." "You know, I wish you wouldn't leave" "Apple cores in the ashtray-- I hate the smell." "That's truly strange." "Isn't it?" "You're like an old woman." "Here are your lousy garters." ""on the coast of coromandel" ""where the early pumpkins blow," "In the middle of the woods..."" "my god!" "It's the sweeney's nurse." ""these were all his worldly goods." "Two old chairs..."" "oh, god!" "Turn it off!" ""..." "Without a handle..."" "Turn it off!" "What if they can hear us?" "That's just some sort of poetry show." "No, it was the sweeney's nurse." "I've talked with her in the park." "I know her voice very well." "She must've been reading to their little girl." "Don't be silly; calm down." "They live in 17 c!" "We must be getting other people's apartments." "Can they hear us?" ""..." "Wife?" "' said the yonghy-bonghy-bo." ""'I'm tired of living singly on this coast" "So wild and shingly..."' hello?" "Hello?" "Can you hear me?" ""'if you'll come and be me wife," "Quite serene would be me life..."'" "I guess they can't hear us." ""'oranges and lemons,' says the bells of st." "Clement's..."" "Try something else." ""you owe me five farthings,'..."" "This is crazy!" ""..." "Say the bells of st.Martin's." "'when will you pay me?" "' say the bells of old bailey..."" "Try something else." "Have some more sandwiches." "My god, I made enough for an army or a marching band." "that's margaret fuller in 11e." "I knew she was giving a party." "I saw her stocking up in the liquor store." "Isn't this too divine?" "Try something else." "see if you can get 18c." "Talk to somebody for christ's sake, honey." "Talk to somebody!" "I don't want to talk to anyone." "It's not a hat, it's a love affair." "If she catches you standing here not talking to anybody..." ""not a hat, it's a love affair."" "Oh, my god!" "Isn't this wild?" "Two, no trump." "Ooh." "Two, no trump?" "Are you nuts?" "I don't know who's nuts, but I do know my hand." "Two, no trump." "Oh, sure." "What's this?" "Tell me." "It's a bounced check, that's what." "Didn't I tell you about this?" "Didn't I warn you That one more time, and that would be it?" "I can't believe you can be so damned irresponsible!" "So selfish and stupid!" "Are you all right, darling?" "Yes." "Yes, I'm all right, I guess." "But you know, charlie," "I don't feel like myself anymore." "Sometimes there are about 15 minutes in a week" "When I feel like myself." "I don't want to go to another doctor." "The bills are too much already." "But I just don't feel like myself, charlie." "I just never feel like myself." "Typical." "Leave it to you to find an excuse" "For such a thing." "I mean, really, who cares?" "Who cares?" "Have a good day at the office, dear." "See you tonight." "Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm." "The war." "Shrapnel." "Really?" "No." "No, I got it on a knife fight on the lower east side" "With my ex-wife." "She stabbed you?" "In more ways than one." "Say..." "Don't pull away." "Come on, come back here." "Come get me." "Oh!" "Mmm..." "Oh." "Anybody ever told you" "You have nice lips?" "No." "No." "Ah, hello?" "Don't pull away." "Oh, hi." "You want me, don't you?" "Lunch?" "Today?" "Come here." "Irene:" "I can't." "Come get me." "I'm in the midst of something." "well, I'll call you." "Right." "Bye." "Mmm." "This is it, huh?" "This is what it comes to." "This!" "Oh, I'm surprised you care." "Jim, go up to 16c." "What?" "Hurry!" "Mr. Osborn is beating his wife." "They've been quarreling since 4:00, and now he's hitting her." "Go up there and stop him!" "Don't you touch me again." "I'll kill you, frank." "I swear, I'll kill you!" "I'll see you dead" "No." "You don't have to listen to this sort of thing, you know?" "It's indecent-- it's like looking into peoples' windows." "I bought the damn radio to give you some pleasure." "I paid a great deal of money for it." "I thought it would make you happy." "I wanted to make you happy." "Look at you." "Don't..." "Don't quarrel with me." "All of the others have been quarreling all day long." "They're all worried about money." "Mrs. Hutchinson's" "Mother is dying of cancer in florida," "And they don't have enough money to send her to the mayo clinic." "At least mr." "Hutchinson says they don't have enough." "And mr." "Hendricks" "Is being laid off in April," "And mrs." "Hendricks is being just horrid about the whole thing." "And that woman who plays the chopin" "Is having an affair with the handyman." "And mr." "Osborn is beating mrs." "Osborn..." "So don't listen to it!" "Turn it off." "It's not your business." "Don't!" "Don't yell!" "Life is too awful." "It's..." "Too sordid and awful." "Who?" "Tell me, who is it this time?" "With the handyman, if you can believe that." "No!" "You're not telling true." "That filthy, driveling, stump of a man." "And she's doing it with him every chance she gets." "Like rabbits, I tell you." "oh, my god!" "I can hear them all day." "Well?" "There's nothing wrong that I can see." "But what about the interference?" "You hear anything now?" "Sounds perfect to me." "But I told you..." "Look, lady, like I said before" "There's nothing wrong that I can see." "I mean, you just got to talk nice to it, that's all." "Don't you think that people should have manners?" "He says that to me." "And do you know what the most awful part of it was?" "Jack melville overheard the whole thing." "Um..." "Irene?" "Are you with us?" "Oh." "Oh, yes." "I..." "Just, um," "Wandered off for a moment." "Well, listen," "Good people, we really" "Do have to be on our way." "Thanks so much." "It was really a lovely dinner, irene." "Oh, did you really think so?" "Thank you." "It's always nice to see you, jack." "Good night, clare." "Good night." "I'll walk you out." "I just don't feel like myself, charlie." "I just never feel like myself." "Oh, for christ's sake, kathy," "Do you always have to play the piano when I get home?" "So, um, anybody ever tell you you got pretty eyes?" "Yes." "My husband." "Irene?" "What's gotten into you?" "What do you mean?" "What do I mean?" "You barely said ten words all night." "You just sat, staring into space," "Or staring at clare." "It's just rude, that's all." "I've never seen you like this." "They seem to be such nice people." "Why don't you treat them better?" "I work with him, irene." "I see him every day." "But you never really know, do you?" "Know what?" "The truth." "What they really are." "They have such nice open faces," "But who knows what horrible things" "They do to one another..." "Alone..." "In secret." "You're talking nonsense." "And I don't like it." "Not one bit." "Hello, darling." "Everything okay?" "Perfect." "Couldn't be better." "Well, that's a good thing." "I just paid the bill for that radio." "Cost $400." "It's a good deal more than I can afford." "I bought that radio 'cause I..." "I thought you'd enjoy it." "That's the last extravagance" "We're gonna be able to indulge in this year." "Listen to it, jim." "Isn't the music beautiful?" "I noticed you haven't paid your clothing bills yet." "I saw them on your dressing table." "Why'd you tell me you had paid them when you hadn't?" "Why'd you lie to me?" "I just didn't want to worry you, jim." "I'll be able" "To pay for everything with this month's allowance." "Last month, remember, I had to pay" "For those slipcovers and that party." "You've got to learn" "To handle the money that I give you" "A little more intelligently, irene." "You've got to understand," "We don't have as much money this year as we did last." "I had a very sobering talk with mitchell today." "I worry about money a great deal," "And I've worked awfully hard" "To give you and the children a comfortable life," "And I don't want to see all of my energies" "And all of my youth wasted in slipcovers and radios" "And fur coats and god" "Jim, please, they'll hear us." "Who?" "The radio." "I'm sick..." "I'm sick to death of that radio!" "The radio can't hear us." "Nobody can hear us, and who cares if they can hear us?" "!" "Who cares?" "!" "Please, jim, you sound just like them- just like them." "Like them?" "!" "Like them?" "!" "Since when are you so goddamn christly?" "What turned you into a convent girl overnight?" "What makes you think you're so much better than them?" "You stole your mother's jewelry" "Before they probated her will." "You never gave your sister a cent of that money" "That was intended for her, not even when she needed it." "Where was all your virtue and your piety then?" "Jim, you know there were reasons for this." "Reasons?" "!" "I've heard your reasons, and I'm-I'm just sick of 'em!" "I don't want to hear your reasons anymore!" "Irene, you look at me!" "Look at me!" "Irene, look at me!"