Monday, February 18, 2013

"The Trial of Westward Ho, Part VII"

            (MR. BALDHAWK’s law office.)

MR. BALDHAWK
Westward---I may call you “Westward”?

            (WESTWARD nods weakly.)

                    MR. BALDHAWK (Continued)
Westward, it’s time to grow up.  You can’t sit in the upstairs room at your mother’s, fiddling with a silly blog and expecting the world to be hunky-dory.  You’ve got to man up and get out.

WESTWARD
But Sunny and Yicheng---

MR. BALDHAWK
They’re newlyweds.  Soon, they’ll fill the house with babies.  But what do you bring?  Pottery plays?

            (WESTWARD walks slowly to the window.)

WESTWARD
If I move out, will she stop her lawsuit?

MR. BALDHAWK
Heavens, no.  She’s in for blood now.

            (MR. BALDHAWK shuffles papers.)

            END OF PART VII.