gennme And [ll know where Leo is. cevonce (Goes 10 the door, turns back uncomjortably) 1 don't think I have anything else to say. How about you? swenvan (Sbrags) Uhave no statement to make at this eronce I'm glad a lot of work is coming your ‘way. I know it's important to you. It’s what you gesmie I'm glad you know what I want, George If you told me five years ago, I could have saved. a lot of dactor money. ceonce I was busy five years ago. sennax You don't have to remind me. Interesting how this all worked out. You pack up end go and leave me with all your memories. cronce I'm sorry, but you can't get a five-oom apartment in the overhead rack. genni Is there anyching you want me to tke care of while you're gone? ceonce You seem to be taking care of it fine right sexe Oh, I tripped over the wire and set off the trap, didn't IP. Everything I say can beso cleverly twisted around by you that you always end up the victim and I'm the perpetrator. God forbid I'm: aot 118 as fast with a thought or a phrase as you, and you pounce on it like a fat cat. ‘oronce Fat-eats are very slow on the pounce because they're fas, but I got your point. sexsun (Very angry) Ob, go om, get the hell out of here, will you! If you're going to leave, leave! Go! Your Mystery Plane is waiting to take you, shrouded in secrecy, to your Phantom Hotel on the intriguing West Coast. Even your life is, turning into a goddamn spy novel— ceonae (Puts down the valie) I've got a few minutes. T don't want to miss what promises to be our most stimulating conversation since I thought you were fan eighty-five-year-old woman on the phone. senwe Isn't it amazing the minute I get angry and abusive, it's one of the few times | can really hold your attention ... What can I say that will really hhurt you, George? I want to send you off happy. (Sbe searms veer bin, punching Bim. He throw: ber onto the sofa) sronor Just going is reward enough. (lie stares out. She rans alead of bim and grabs rhe suitcase to fling it out, He tbros ber 10 the flor) gensiz You know what you want better than me, George. ..Ldon't know what you expect to find out there, except a larger audience for your two shows aday of suffering... [know I'm notas smart as you. Maybe I can’t anslyze and theorize and speculate on 119why we behave as we do and react as we do and suffer guile and love and hate. You read all those books, not me... But there’s one thing I do know. Tknow how L feel. know I can stand here watching. you try to destroy everything I've ever wanted in my life, wanting to smash your face with my fis because you won't even make the slightest effort t0 opt for happiness—and still know that I love you. ‘That's always so clear tome. It's the one place i get all my strength from .. . You mean so much to me that [am willing © take all your abuse and insuks and insensitivity—because that’s what you need to do to prove I'm not going to leave you. [can't prom- ise I'm not going (0 die, George, that’s asking too much. But if you want to test me, go ahead and test me. You want to leave, leave! But Tim not the one who's going to walk away. I don't know if Ian take i forever, but I can take it for tonightand Ican take it next week. Next month I may be a little shaky But I'll tell you something, George. No mater ‘what you say about me, I feel 0 good about myself —better than I felt when I ran from Cleveland and was frightened to death of New York, Better than, felt when Gus was coming home attwo o'clock in the morning just to change his clothes. Bewer than 1 felt when I thought there was no one in the world ‘out there for me, and better than J felt the night before we got married and I thought that I wasn’t ‘good enough for you... Well, Lam! I'm wonderful! T'm nats about me! And if you're stupid enough to throw someone seasatioaal like me aside, then you don’t deserve as good as you've got! I am sick and tired of running from places and people and rela- tionships... And don’t tell me what I want because Tiftell you what I want. I want a homeand Lwant a funily—and I wanta career, too, And I wanca dog and [ want a eat and I want three goldfish. I want everything! There's no harm in wanting it, George, because there's not a chance in hell we're going to get it all, anyway. But if you dor’t want it, you've got even less chance than that . .. Everyone's out there looking for easy answers. And if you don’t find it at home, hop into another bed and maybe you'll come up tucky. Maybe! You'd be just as sur- prised as me at some of the “maybe's" 'vé ceen out there lately. Well, none of that for me, George ‘You want me, then fight for me, because I'm fighting like hell for you. Ithink we're both worth it.I will admit, however, that I do have one fault. One glaring, major, monumental fault. . . Some- times T don’t know when to stop talking. For that T'm sorry, George, and:f apologize. T am now through! (She sts back om the cof, exbousted) ‘axonse (Looks at ber for a long time, hen says warmly) Il tell you one thing—I'm glad you're on my side, gene (Looks over at bins) Do you mean it, George? ceonce I didn’t hear balf of what you said because I ‘was so mesmerized by your conviction. I'm not @