MOTHER
Here is a ticket. You are vacationing in the provinces.YOUNG WOMAN
But I don’t want to go---MOTHER
I have bought it with your father’s life insurance.YOUNG WOMAN
I would rather stay and study centrifugal forces.MOTHER
There are centrifuges in the provinces.YOUNG WOMAN
Can my brother go instead?MOTHER
It was your father’s dying wish. I will hear no more of it.END OF PART I.