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OLIVIA: Has _he_ asked you for it?
MRS. BRAMSON: It's enough to have those policemen prying, you forward
girl, without----
OLIVIA (_urgently_): Please! Has he?
MRS. BRAMSON: Well, he did offer to fetch some money yesterday for the
dairy. But I wouldn't give him the key! Oh, no!
OLIVIA: Why?
MRS. BRAMSON: Do I want to see him waylaid and attacked, and my key
stolen? Oh, no, I told him, that key stays on me--
OLIVIA: Did he--know how much money there is in there?
MRS. BRAMSON: I told him! Do you wonder I stick to the key, I said--
what _is_ the matter with you, all these questions?
OLIVIA: Oh, it's no use--
_She goes to the armchair below the fireplace and sits in it._
DAN _returns from the kitchen, with a copy of the "News of the
World," the Bible tucked under his arm, a cigarette stub between his
lips._
DAN: He says they're sellin' like hot cakes! (_Handing the paper
to_ MRS. BRAMSON) There you are, I've found the place for you--whole
page, headlines an' all....
MRS. BRAMSON: Oh, yes....
DAN _stands with one knee on the sofa, and turns over the pages of
his Bible.
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