PARTISAN
REVIEW
JOAN: Voices? May I?
FIRST
VOICE: He shoots us and then he wants favors.
SECOND VOICE: He's got two more wishes. Why come to us?
JOAN: You
can
wish him back.
COHN: Oy.
JOAN: You can.
COHN: I can't.
JOAN: Try.
COHN: I tried once. Look what happened!
JOAN:
It
came true.
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COHN: It didn't come true. Certain things happened - I can't go
into details - you don't know everything–
JOAN: You refuse to wish.
COHN: Let's drop the subject.
JOAN: You don't want it to come true.
CoHN:
I said-
JOAN: You don't want your friend back.
COHN: I want quiet! I want peace and quiet!
JOAN: But not your friend.
COHN: Him too! But first, quiet!
JOAN: Then wish!
COHN : You're a child!
JOAN: Wish!
COHN: Games!
JOAN: Wish!
COHN: Nag! Shrew! I wish! All right? I wish!
JOAN: What?
COHN: I wish Abe was back! You satisfied? So where is he? You see
him? Where is he? (JOAN
looks around.)
You're so smart.
(She
looks in the bedroom.)
Miss know-it-all. (
He turns his back on
her in contempt. She comes out of the bedroom, opens the lid of
,the trunk, and looks in.)
JOAN: It came true! (COHN
whirls, looks on in horror.)
COHN: Close it! What are you doing in there? Mind your own busi–
ness!
JOAN: Come! Look!
COHN: Who do you think you are!
