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Helena

Nana, no more people are being born.

Nana

That's the end, then. We're done for.

Helena

Don't talk like that.

Nana

No more people are being born. That's a punishment, that's a punishment.

Helena

Nana!

Nana

[Standing up]: That's the end of the world.
[She exits on the left.]

Helena

[Goes up to window]: Oh, Mr. Alquist, will you come up here. Oh, come just as you are. You look very nice in your mason's overalls.

[Alquist enters from upper left entrance, his hands soiled with lime and brickdust.]