DEBORAH
Well, yes! Get to the point. I think I know where this chat is leading to, but I’ll hear it without a hint of scepticism. So go ahead!
CHARLES
He broke his two front teeth. He wore from thereon a dental bridge.
DEBORAH
Many people have them! So what!
CHARLES
Damn it, Deborah. The dental records match thus confirming the identity of the body. Don’t you see? It’s our son! No amount of scepticism by you can dissuade me from what I know. You can’t deny the facts as they stand. He’s dead!
DEBORAH
Stop saying that! I no longer care what the world thinks of me. I no longer want you in my life. You’re free to do as you wish. But remember, you are responsible for Edward’s death!
CHARLES
I am not, Deborah! How can you say that? You’re more culpable than me. Wasn’t it you who pushed him into enlisting?
DEBORAH
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CHARLES
Fuck respectability! If you weren’t so sexless, so overbearing, not to mention melodramatic…then, in every likelihood, I wouldn’t have found love with another woman. And, and, Edward wouldn’t have gotten himself involved with extremists. Ah, the way you’re looking at me suggests that I’ve struck a nerve...it indicates that you believe what I say to be true.
DEBORAH
So what if it does. It doesn’t excuse you, Charles. I may be a sexless wife… a domineering mother, but I’m not the one asking to be released from my marriage. Charles, don’t you see? You need me more so than ever before.
CHARLES
Don’t you value your standing in the local community?
DEBORAH
Never more so than now. However, Charles I will forego this in favour of something more appeasing to my