scene five

• Blanche: "I am spending the summer on the wing, making flying visits ... perhaps I shall ... swoop down on Dallas!"
• Blanche: "I bet you were born under Aries ... forceful and dynamic"
• Blanche: "Virgo is the Virgin"
• "[She speaks lightly but her voice has a note of fear]"
• Blanche: "Have got to be seductive - put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings"
• Blanche: "Make a little temporary magic"
• Blanche: "Men don't even admit your existence unless they are making love to you"
• Blanche: "And so the soft people have got to ... put a paper lantern over the light"
• Blanche: "I want to deceive him enough to make him want me"
• Stella: "Blanche do you want him?"

  Blanche: "I want to rest! I want to breathe quietly again!"
• Blanche: "Young man! ... Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young prince out of the Arabian Nights?"
• Blanche: "Look who's coming! My Rosenkavalier!"