Scene 3

• [Men at the peak of their physical manhood, as coarse and direct and powerful as the primary colours]
• 'I oughta go home pretty soon' -M

  'Shut up' -S
• 'I'll still be alone when she goes' -M
• 'Hurry back and we'll fix you a sugar-tit' -Stan
• 'You are as fresh as a daisy' -Stella

  'One that's been picked a few days' -B
• 'Please don't get up' -B

  'Nobody's going to get up' -Stan
• [Loud whack of his hand on her thigh]

  [The men laugh]
• [Glancing back at Blanche and coughing a little shyly]

  'A sort of sensitive look' -B about M
• [Stands in her pink silk brassiere and white skirt in the light]
• Madonna vs whore

  Stella [light blue satin kimono]

  Blanche [dark red satin wrapper]
• 'You hens cut out that conversation in there!' -Stan
• 'Once he goes home he'll deposit them one by one in a piggy bank his mother give him for Christmas' -Stan
• 'White Woods. Like an orchard in spring!' -B
• 'I can't stand a naked light-bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or vulgar action' -B
• [In awkward imitation like a dancing bear]
• 'Drunk - drunk - animal thing' -Stella
• [She backs out of sight. He advances and disappears. There is the sound of a blow]
• [They speak quietly and lovingly to him]
• 'Poker shouldn't be played in a house with women' - M repeated twice
• [He throws back his head like a baying hound and bellows his wife's name]
• 'I hope they do haul you in and turn the fire hose on you same as last time' -Eunice
• [They come together with low, animal moans]
• [He falls to his knees on the steps and presses his face to her belly, curving a little with maternity]
• [Her eyes go blind with tenderness]
• 'Don't take it serious'

  'They're crazy about each other' -M
• 'I need kindness now'