Scene 9

• blanche is seated in a tense hunched position
• he has on her scarlet satin robe
• the rapid , feverish , polka tune , the varsouviana is heard
• the music is in her mind
• she is drinking to escape it and the sense of disaster closing in
• mitch comes around the corner in work clothes
• she offers him her lips. He ignores it and pushes past her into the flat. she looks fearfully after him as he stalks into the bedroom
• i forgive you because its such a relief to see you. youve stopped that polka tune that i had caught in my head - blanche
• mitch plumps himself down on the bed
• are you boxed out of your mind? - mitch
• i like it dark. The dark is comforting to me - blanche
• i don't think i ever seen you in the light - mitch
• i've never had a real good look at you blanche - mitch
• lets turn the light on here - mitch
• he tears the paper lantern off the lightbulb. she utters a frightened gasp
• i don't want realism - blanche
• i'll tell you what i want. Magic! - blanche
• i don't tell the truth. i tell what ought to be the truth - blanche
• Don't turn the light on! - blanche
• that's where i brought my victims - blanche
• yes, i had many intimacies with strangers. after the death of Allan - intimacies with strangers was all i seemed able to fill my empty heart with - blanche
• she throws her head back with a convulsive , sobbing laughter
• the opposite is desire - blanche
• what i been missing all summer - mitch

  then marry me mitch! - blanche
• you're not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother - mitch