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Mortimer Brewster has stopped by his aunts鈥� house before going on a date to the theatre that evening. His brother Teddy (who believes that he is Theodore Roosevelt) lives there as well. As Mortimer is looking around the front room for a book chapter he was working on, he opens the window seat, and is met with a gruesome sight: the dead body of an elderly gentleman. Mortimer panics, believing that Teddy is responsible, but is shocked to learn the truth from his aunts.
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Mortimer: Aunt Abby!
Abby: Yes, dear?
Mortimer: You were going to make plans for Teddy to go to that 鈥� sanitarium--Happy Dale--
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End:
Abby: No, dear, because I remember when Mr. Hoskins first came in, it occurred to me that he would make just an even dozen.
Martha: Well, you really shouldn鈥檛 count the first one.
Abby: Oh, I was counting the first one. So that makes it twelve.
For the full extended scene, refer to Joseph Kesselring, Arsenic and Old Lace. Dramatists Play Service, 1969. pp. 21-25.
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