Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw
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Underwear.
LINA. _[writing]_ T-a-r-l-e-t-o-n. Er--? _[She looks up at him inquiringly]._ TARLETON. _[promptly]_ Fifty-eight. LINA. Thank you. I keep a list of all my offers. I like to know what I'm considered worth. TARLETON. Let me look. LINA. _[offering the book to him]_ It's in Polish. TARLETON. Thats no good. Is mine the lowest offer? LINA. No: the highest. TARLETON. What do most of them come to? Diamonds? Motor cars? Furs? Villa at Monte Carlo? LINA. Oh yes: all that. And sometimes the devotion of a lifetime. TARLETON. Fancy that! A young man offering a woman his old age as a temptation! LINA. By the way, you did not say how long. TARLETON. Until you get tired of me. |
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