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CONNAGE: Let's look right away. (They go out.
ROSALIND comes in with GILLESPIE.) GILLESPIE: Rosalind--Once more I ask you.
Don't you care a blessed thing about me? (AMORY walks in briskly.) AMORY: My dance. ROSALIND: Mr.Gillespie, this is Mr.Blaine. GILLESPIE: I've met Mr.Blaine.From Lake Geneva, aren't you? AMORY: Yes. GILLESPIE: (Desperately) I've been there.
It's in the--the Middle West, isn't it? AMORY: (Spicily) Approximately.
But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning. GILLESPIE: What! AMORY: Oh, no offense. (GILLESPIE bows and leaves.) ROSALIND: He's too much _people_. AMORY: I was in love with a _people_ once. ROSALIND: So? AMORY: Oh, yes--her name was Isabelle--nothing at all to her except what I read into her. ROSALIND: What happened? AMORY: Finally I convinced her that she was smarter than I was--then she threw me over.
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