Scene 5

• [Touching her throat as if actually talking to Shep]
• [At each noise Blanche winces slightly]
• 'Aries people are forceful and dynamic. They dote on noise!' -B
• [Contemptuously] 'Hah!' [He advances a little]
• 'At a hotel called the Flamingo' -Stan
• Eunice proleptic [sobbing luxuriously]
• 'Put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings, and glow - make a little - temporary magic' -B
• 'Soft people have got to - shimmer and glow - put a - paper lantern over the light' -B
• 'I - I'm fading now!'

  [The afternoon has faded to dusk]
• 'I want to deceive him enough to make him - want me...'
• 'I want to rest! I want to breathe quietly again!'
• 'You make my mouth water'

  'Young man! Young, young, young, young - man!'
• 'I've got to be good and keep my hands off children!'