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MAN Can I help? May I show you a recent acquisition of mine – I refer to this painting.
ROLAND My god! What damned sauce! That's our Athenese!
MAN Yours?! Did you ever look at it?
ROLAND Of course! It hung in our dining room.
MAN It was yours. Since the pacification it has been mine. By great good fortune it came to me in the redistribution as I had been one of the first to apply for it. Would you care to demonstrate its finer points?
ROLAND Well, I'm no art expert, but …
MAN No, I did not suppose you were, but – you said it was yours and I wondered in what sense you meant that.
ROLAND I suppose you think it's yours – by right of force, by conquest.
MAN Shall we say, by right of your falling to my chocolate bar?
ROSEMARY Am I likewise – Alice also – slave to your all-conquering chocolate bar? No, leave him to me Alice. I told you, I know how to deal with these gentry. I wasn't sent to one of your high-falutin' schools.