WOMAN
I think your problem is that everything is always too clean. Too nettoyé, as the French might say.---
Why would you --- ?WOMAN
For your own good. There’s something enticing, yes: my movements, my discordant motherliness. Get off that pillow, so I can rumple. Promising, yes. Set that dish aside; I'll smash it later. But there’s too much of . . . or not enough ------
Of what?WOMAN
I don’t ------
Restraint?WOMAN
Certainly not! If anything, it could be viler --- snappingly viler. Restraint, no. But strain . . .---
Strain?WOMAN
I don’t know against what. Hand me that filth.---
Look at me. Look in my eyes. Why don’t you choke on your --- ?WOMAN
Really ------
And get the hell out of my salon!WOMAN
(Arched eyebrow)Salon?
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Parlor.WOMAN
(Arched eyebrow)Parlor? And you criticize my nettoyé?
(Yawns)
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Get the hell out!WOMAN
(Arched eyebrow)My my.
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(Fuming)I mean it.
WOMAN
The problem is that we’re here in the first place. THE END
