Scene 2

• 'Admire her dress and tell her she's looking wonderful'
• 'Her little weakness!' - Stella
• 'Sister Blanche'
• Repetition of 'Napolionic code' and 'swindled'
• 'It looks to me like you have been swindled baby' -Stanley
• 'She'll go to pieces again'
• 'You don't know how ridiculous you're being' -Stella to Stanley
• 'My sister or I or anyone of our family' -Stella
• 'Perpetrated a swindle' -Stella
• [Stalks into the bedroom]

  [Jerks out an armful of dresses]
• 'A solid-gold dress I believe'

  'Genuine fox-pieces, half a mile long!'

  'The treasure chest of a pirate!'

  'A crown for an empress!'
• 'I've got an acquaintance' repetition
• 'What's rhinstone?' -Stan

  'Next door to glass' -Stella
• 'A deep-sea diver who brings up sunken treasures'

  'Champion safe-cracker of all time'
• [Hurls the furs]

  [Jerks open a small drawer]

  [Pulls up a fistful of costume jewellery]

  [Kicks the truck]
• 'The Kowalskis and DuBois have different notions' -Stan

  'Indeed they have, thank heavens!' -Stella
• 'A little card party to which we ladies are cordially not invited' -B
• 'Would you think it possible that I was once considered to be - attractive?'
• 'I cannot imagine any witch of a woman casting a spell over you' -B
• 'A little on the primitive side' -B
• 'I like an artist who paints in strong, bold colours, primary colours. I don't like pinks and creams and I never cared for wish-washy people.' -B
• [He seizes the atomizer and slams it down]
• 'yellowing with antiquity' -B
• [He snatches them up]
• 'The touch of your hands insults them!' -B

  'Now you've touched them I'll burn them!' -B
• 'In a way that you would like to hurt me but you can't! I'm not young and vulnerable anymore.' -B
• [Faint with exhaustion] -B
• 'Epic fornications' -B
• 'Including a graveyard, to which now all but Stella and I have retreated'
• 'She's going to have a baby'

  [The blue piano sounds louder]
• 'and flirted! Yes - I was flirting with your husband'
• 'Maybe he's what we need to mix our blood with now that we've lost Belle Reve' -B
• [Blanche utters a sharp, frightened cry and shrinks away]
• [On the floor gathering them up] Proxemics- Blanche powerless to Stanley
• 'Re-e-d ho-o-ot!' Connotations with danger and warning
• 'The blind are - leading the blind!' -B