The One Where Tom and Amanda Have a Serious Talk
- Tom and Amanda are out on the fire escape. Tom smoking, Amanda telling him he ought not to and musing at the moon and the revelry in the dance hall nearby. There's a bit of cat and mouse as Tom dangles the new info that he found a guy to meet Laura and Amanda bats at it, wanting all the details that Tom won't provide at first.
- When Tom reveals that the man will be coming the next day Amanda is in an absolute tizzy. Nothing is good enough: clothes, dishes, the apartment itself, to impress this man. Amanda goes on to question the character,salary, and attractiveness of James Delaney O'Connor. She deems him suitable. But sadly for the poor fellow he has no idea he's being lured into Amanda's spiderweb. Tom lacks the tact needed to hold a conversation long enough to fully explain to O'Connor the full scope of the implications of the dinner invite. Or at least he's too smart to scare a modern man away with the idea of marriage.
- Then Tom begins to talk about Laura, saying that though he and Amanda find her charming maybe others wouldn't-they'd find her strange. The way she plays with her little animals and listens to old records constantly. Laura's world is ghastly small. Amanda just cannot accept this. Tom knows it to be true and having said all he can he leaves. Amanda bring Laura out on the escape and tells her to wish for happiness, tears in her eyes. Her fears are showing. She knows the truth but denies it.
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