Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt ES. Thirty-four. L. ANNE. Are they all for the dinner, or for the people who come in to the Anti-Sweating Meeting afterwards? JAMES. All for the dinner. They give the Sweated--tea. L. ANNE. All for the dinner? They'll drink too much, won't they? JAMES. We've got to be on the safe side. L. ANNE. Will it be safer if they drink too much? [JAMES pauses in the act of dusting a bottle to look at her, as if suspecting irony.] [Sniffing] Isn't the smell delicious here-like the taste of cherries when they've gone bad--[She sniffs again] and mushrooms; and boot blacking. JAMES. That's the escape of gas. L. ANNE. Has the plumber's man been? JAMES. Yes. L. ANNE. Which one?
