Scene 4

• [Narcotized tranquillity]
• [Stanley's gaudy pyjamas lie across the threshold]
• 'When men are drinking and playing poker anything can happen. It's always a powder-keg'
• 'He was as good as a lamb when I came back'
• 'Stanley's always smashed things'

  'He smashed all the light-bulbs with the heel of my slipper!' [She laughs]
• 'I was - sort of - thrilled by it' -Stella
• [Slowly and emphatically] 'I'm not in anything I want to get out of' -Stella
• 'Must have been a block long!'

  'Texas is literally spouting gold in his pockets'
• Bathos 'inconvenient in traffic'
• [Grabs up a sheet of Kleenex and an eyebrow pencil for writing equipment]
• 'The only way to live with such a man is to -go to bed with him! And that's your job - not mine!' -B
• 'There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark - that sort of make everything else seem - unimportant' -S
• 'What you are talking about is brutal desire - just - Desire!' -B

  'It bought me here'
• [Under the cover of the train's noise Stanley enters from outside]
• 'There's something downright - bestial - about him!'
• 'Sub-human'

  'Survivor of the Stone Age!'

  'Party of apes!'

  'Don't hang back with the brutes!'
• [Stella has embraced him with both arms, fiercely, and in the full view of Blanche]