### SCENE 3. Roadway, driveway. Patience and Handy are in their car.

HANDY. Harrisonville to Spokane
In nine thousand three hundred and sixty seven
Days, it doesn't seem impossible!

PATIENCE. A storm moderates me this end.

NIGHTINGALE (from below, as she and her ironing board are now part of the driveway). Gazing with hope

PEBBLE. This morning upon the

NURSE. Foolish capers in the sun

GIRL PEBBLE. I understood for the last time

IRONING BOARD. How the fanshaped crisscrosses,
Which speak to everything, are done.

FOOTBALL (comes flying through). I gave, for love, my ter-
rifying heart.

Ah, that laughing, papery summer, when we kissed
The leaves of every down, that showed the field
A prayer, and at evening a park.

HANDY. Please, Patience, take this green dress!

PATIENCE. O branches! where is the collie of happiness?

EVERYONE. Woof! woof!

### SCENE 4. Epilogue.

GIRL. If you can fail to understand
I have been formed to represent where
Canada actually begins to understand
Herself as a country and where carfare is the red postage stamps
For freedom. When the oranges come in to stand
For a cafeteria, I will be here to kiss you here then.

(She indicates her rear, and runs off.)

CURTAIN