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(The Oafs walk in - - they all look like Rosa.)
1st Oaf. (grinning sheepishly.) I will tell my father
about the swords.

The other Oafs shuffle their feet and pull their
forelocks.

Exit Oafs sheepishly.

Leaving muddy foot-prints on the carpet.

Enter Seraminka with twins at her breast. The twins
look like Jeraboam.

SERA. What are you two doing to my sons - they are
threeex threemonths old and they catch flies. I can
not bear it. You two are doing something to my sons
it is the quiet here - you have been so quiet for
fifty years. (She begins to dust swords and pistols
feverishly as they flash round each other in the air.)

JERAB. Seraminka - you need not dust - - now,

(A sword splits one of the twins at her breast in
half.)

SERAM. (vaguely) What are you two doing to my sons?

ROSA. I am a devil - I am mad tell me, Seraminka what
does your master do to a woman.

SERAM. (disdainfully) I also have been admired.

(Exit)

JERAB. I am getting tired - - The neighbours are
growing in the flowerbed.

(ROSA. stops juggling with the swords, plucks the one
out of the Madonna's eye and lays them on the side by side

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over the Oaf's muddy footprints on the carpet.)

ROSA. I have made abed for us to lie on.

(Jeraboam lays himself exhausted upon the swords.)

Rosa as she prepares to lie down beside him glances
at the dead baby.

ROSA. Aah! - - -it was because you were not filled
with a divine hatred. (Lying down beside Jeraboam)
This is not one of my sleepless nights.

JERABOAM. ( biting her breast listlessly.) My God! how
you do hate me.

MINA LOY