ANITA. Is on account they all criticize because I bite Mr. Vernon that time?

PHILIP. No. Of course not.

ANITA. I tell you I give a lot not to do that.

PHILIP. Oh, nobody remembers that.

ANITA. You know why I do? Everybody know I bite, but nobody ever ask why.

PHILIP. Why was it?

ANITA. He try to take three hundred pesetas out my stocking. What I should do? Say “Yes, go ahead. All right. Help yourself”? No, I bite.

PHILIP. Quite right, too.

ANITA. You think? Really?

PHILIP. Yes.

ANITA. Oh, you sweet all right. Listen, you don’t want make mistake now with that big blonde.

PHILIP. You know, Anita. I’m afraid I do. I’m afraid that’s the whole trouble. I want to make an absolutely colossal mistake.

[He calls the WAITER, looks at his watch. To WAITER]

What time have you?

WAITER. [Looks at the clock over the bar and at Philip’s watch] The same as you have.

ANITA. Be colossal all right.

PHILIP. You’re not jealous?

ANITA. No. I just hate. Last night I try to like. I say hokay everybody a comrade. Comes a big bombardment. Maybe everybody killed. Should be comrades everybody with each other. Bury the axes. Not be selfish. Not be egotistic. Love a enemy like a self. All that slop.

PHILIP. You were terrific.

ANITA. That kind a stuff don’t last over the night. This morning I wake up. First thing I do I hate that woman all day long.

PHILIP. You mustn’t, you know.

ANITA. What she want with you? She take a man just like you pick a flowers. She don’t want. She just pick to put in her room. She just like you because you big, too. Listen. I like you if you was a dwarf.

PHILIP. Na, Anita. No. Be careful.

ANITA. Listen good. I like you if you was sick. I like you if dry up and be ugly. I like you if you hunchback.

PHILIP. Hunchbacks are lucky.

ANITA. I like you if you unlucky hunchback. I like you if you got no money. You want? I make it.

PHILIP. That’s about the only thing I haven’t tried on this job.

ANITA. I not joke. I’m a serious. Philip, you leave her alone. You come back where you know is hokay.

PHILIP. I’m afraid I can’t, Anita.

ANITA. You just try. Isn’t any change. You like before, you like again. Always works that way when a man is a man.

PHILIP. But you see I change. It’s not that I mean to.

ANITA. You no change. I know you good. I know you long time now. You not the kind that change.

PHILIP. All men change.