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Rosemary awakes. It is broad daylight.
ROSEMARY Nobody here? What's happened? What an awful night – I feel quite worn out. (Rings for Alice; nobody comes; at last she gets up.) Has she run away? Have they all run away? Perhaps Man and his thugs have been here and arrested the whole lot. In that case how did they miss me? Man may have told them to leave me – for him. He doesn't love me, not after what I said to him yesterday … was it yesterday? I don't even know what day it was. That young boy … ah, it's coming back to me – said he's been killed in the war … must be crazy … or did I dream it? That was no dream. What was it then? Alice! Alice!! Alice!!! … I'm screaming! Mad – and no one to talk to. Mad! And alone. This place gives me the creeps. It's haunted. I am haunted – hag-ridden they call it. Are those guns? No, trucks on the road. They are driving at me – through me – into my head – drumming in my ears! Cassandra, help me, help! Alice! Oh, there you are. Where have you been? I've fallen out of bed; must have had a stroke. Where's the doctor? No, I don't want a psychoanalyst – I'm ill. I need a doctor I say. No, not a mind doctor. I must get up or I'll go out of my mind.
ALICE Did you call, Ma'am?
ROSEMARY Oh shut up! Don't talk that ‘Ma'am’ nonsense to me.
ALICE I'm sorry. I thought you liked it.
ROSEMARY You liked it. You led me on. How could you put up with that nonsense? I hated being your skivvy and I hated you. Now you seem … I suppose it serves me right!
ALICE What serves you right? I was sure you liked it.
ROSEMARY I must be mad. How do I come to be mistress of the
house? What has happened? What … (begins to be hysterical, and Alice becomes angry and frightened.)
ALICE Calm yourself! What's the matter?
ROSEMARY Nothing. I want to get up. I must have had … had … a nightmare. It was very vivid.