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ALICE What was that? Did you hear it?
ROSEMARY No – I hope you aren't hallucinating, or I shall have to get rid of you.
P.A. I should be careful what you do with your voice. Here – suck one of these psychoanalytic pills – slowly. Just let it dissolve in your mind. You've swallowed it! You shouldn't have done that. It won't do you any harm just a bit of heart ache. But it will spread through your system and be excreted harmlessly by your mind – like cinnamon, or whisky. It was probably the Future casting its shadow before; sometimes it is disguised as the Past casting its memory forward.
ROSEMARY Thank you; I am most grateful. Do you know what gratitude is?
ROBIN ‘A lively expectation of benefits to come.‘
ALICE You are cynical. What is guilt then?
P.A. Ah yes! – the Cynics.
ROBIN No, she asked about guilt. Guilt is ‘a lively apprehension of rewards to be inflicted’.
P.A. For being able to laugh at dirty jokes in school-like, ‘It is I. Come forth! And ‘e came fifth – and ‘e did ‘it ‘is eye.’
ALICE Oh my God!