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Mr. Zero works with Daisy Devore in the counting office of a
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Daisy: Three ninety-eight. Forty-two cents. A dollar fifty. A dollar fifty. A dollar twenty-five. Two dollars. Thirty -nine cents. Twenty-seven fifty.
Zero: (petulantly) Speed it up a little, cancha?
Daisy: What’s the rush? To-morrer’s another day.
Zero: Aw, you make me sick.
[... � …]
End:
Daisy: We used to be so nice and friendly together when I first came here. You used to talk to me then.
Zero: Maybe she’ll die soon. I noticed she was coughin� this mornin�.
Daisy: You used to tell me all kinds o� things. You were goin� to show them all. Just the same, you’re still sittin� here.
For the complete scene, see the video or the script edition cited here: Elmer Rice, The Adding Machine. Samuel French, 1956. pp.9-17.
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