THE CI T Y



- and all his hypocrisies, - and she paints his

ambition on her fences, and lights up her sky-

scrapers with it! -what he wants to be and

what he thinks he is I - and then she says to him,

Make good if you can, or to Hell with you!

And what is in him comes out to clothe his naked-

ness, and to the City he can't lie ! I know, be-

cause I tried I

                  [A short pause. FOOT enters.

  FOOT. Miss Vorhees.

  GEORGE. Ask her to come in here.

                         [TERESA rises quickly.

  TERESA. Don, I think -

  VAN VRANKEN. I've a taxi outside.

  MRS. RAND. All this time, and that clock

going on every minute !

  TERESA. [To MRS. RAND.] Mother, if you

want to see us after dinner, telephone.

                                  [Kisses her.



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