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Hal and Dennis have carried out a bank robbery and hidden the loot in Hal’s mother’s coffin. The have unceremoniously stashed the corpse in the wardrobe. After screwing down the lid of the coffin, they are interrupted by the arrival of Fay, Hal’s mother’s nurse and Dennis� older lover. Dennis knows that she has arranged to marry Hal’s father and he is jealous. He proposes to her but she turns him down immediately. During this scene, Fay confirms her suspicions that it was the two men who robbed
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START: Dennis: I’d slave for you.
Fay: I can’t marry boys.
Hal: He’d grow a moustache.
Fay: It really doesn’t concern me what he grows.
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END: Fay: No. She bought them out of her winnings. She had some good evenings at the table last year.
Hal: She was a great lady. Nothing was too good for her. Which is why she had to go.
Fay: Fetch the car. Pay cash. It’s not to be charged to my account.
Joe Orton, Loot, Orton: The Complete Plays, Methuen, 1983, pp.221-227
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