That's where I'm out of patience with
you Claire. You are really a particularly intelligent, competent person,
and it's time for you to call a halt to this nonsense and be the woman
you were meant to be!
CLAIRE: (_holding the book up to see another way_) What inside dope have
you on what I was meant to be?
ADELAIDE: I know what you came from.
CLAIRE: Well, isn't it about time somebody got loose from that? What I
came from made you, so--
ADELAIDE: (_stiffly_) I see.
CLAIRE: So--you being such a tower of strength, why need I too be
imprisoned in what I came from?
ADELAIDE: It isn't being imprisoned. Right there is where you make your
mistake, Claire. Who's in a tower--in an unsuccessful tower? Not I. I go
about in the world--free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to
think of myself.
CLAIRE: No.
ADELAIDE: No. My family. The things that interest them; from morning
till night it's--
CLAIRE: Yes, I know you have a large family, Adelaide; five and
Elizabeth makes six.
ADELAIDE: We'll speak of Elizabeth later. But if you would just get out
of yourself and enter into other people's lives--
CLAIRE: Then I would become just like you. And we should all be just
alike in order to assure one another that we're all just right.
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