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In the first act of Homecoming - the first play in the trilogy - Adam Brant arrives at the Mannon Home with the guise of wooing Lavinia. But she is not so easily swayed, and instead goads him into talking about his parentage, forcing him to admit that he is in fact a Mannon, a truth that he despises. More than that, Ezra Mannon had the opportunity to aid Brant鈥檚 mother, and possibly save her from a miserable death, but took no action. Now, Brant has vowed revenge against the Mannon family.
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BRANT--(bowing with an exaggerated politeness) Good afternoon. (coming and taking her hand which she forces herself to hold out to him) Hope you don't mind my walking in on you without ceremony. Your mother told me--
LAVINIA--I know. She had to go out for a while and she said I was to keep you company until she returned.
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LAVINIA--(icily) If you have any consideration for her, you'll do as I say and not force me to write my father. (She turns her back on him and walks to the steps woodenly erect and square-shouldered.)
BRANT--(desperately now--with a grotesque catching at his lover's manner) I don't know what you mean, Lavinia. I swear before God it is only you I--(She turns at the top of the steps at this and stares at him with such a passion of hatred that he is silenced. Her lips move as if she were going to speak, but she fights back the words, turns stiffly and goes into the house and closes the door behind her.)
Full text of scene available at: O鈥橬eill, Eugene. Mourning Becomes Electra: The Hunted. 1931. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400141h.html#p02
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