REBECCA That’s funny, somewhere in a dream . . . a long time ago . . . I heard someone calling me sweetheart.

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REBECCA (cont.) I looked up. I’d been dreaming. I don’t know whether I looked up in the dream or as I opened my eyes. But in this dream a voice was calling. That I’m certain of. This voice was calling me. It was calling me sweetheart.

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REBECCA (cont.) Yes.

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REBECCA (cont.) I walked out into the frozen city. Even the mud was frozen. And the snow was a funny color. It wasn’t white. Well, it was white but there were other colors in it. It was as if there were veins running through it. And it wasn’t smooth, as snow is, as snow should be. It was bumpy. And when I got to the railway station I saw the train. Other people were there.

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REBECCA (cont.) And my best friend, the man I had given my heart to, the man I knew was the man for me the moment we met, my dear, my most precious companion, I watched him walk down the platform and tear all the babies from the arms of their screaming mothers.

Silence.

DEVLIN Did you see Kim and the kids?

She looks at him.

DEVLIN (cont.) You were going to see Kim and the kids today.

She stares at him.

DEVLIN (cont.) Your sister Kim and the kids.

REBECCA Oh, Kim! And the kids, yes. Yes. Yes, of course I saw them. I had tea with them. Didn’t I tell you?

DEVLIN No.

REBECCA Of course I saw them.

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DEVLIN How were they?

REBECCA Ben’s talking.

DEVLIN Really? What’s he saying?

REBECCA Oh, things like “My name is Ben.” Things like that. And “Mummy’s name is Mummy.” Things like that.

DEVLIN What about Betsy?

REBECCA She’s crawling.

DEVLIN No, really?

REBECCA I think she’ll be walking before we know where we are. Honestly.

DEVLIN Probably talking too. Saying things like “My name is Betsy.”

REBECCA Yes, of course I saw them. I had tea with them. But oh . . . my poor sister . . . she doesn’t know what to do.

DEVLIN What do you mean?

REBECCA Well, he wants to come back . . . you know . . . he keeps phoning and asking her to take him back. He says he can’t bear it, he says he’s given the other one up, he says he’s living quite alone, he’s given the other one up.

DEVLIN Has he?

REBECCA He says he has. He says he misses the kids.

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DEVLIN Does he miss his wife?

REBECCA He says he’s given the other one up. He says it was never serious, you know, it was only sex.

DEVLIN Ah.

Pause.

DEVLIN (cont.) And Kim?

Pause.

DEVLIN (cont.) And Kim?