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THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED
Amy
Why should there be any hard feelings?
Tony
Benissimo!
Joe
All right. Only I didn’t want you to think. . . .
[A long pause.]
Amy
[Very steadily]: You ain’t got much of a swelled head, have you, Mr. Joe?
[Joe’s face falls. The tension is snapped by a gesture from Tony.]
Tony
Tear him up, Joe! Tear him up!
[Joe obeys.]
Amy
Now we don’t ever have to think of that again.
Tony
Madonna! . . . Da’s verra good.
Amy
You see, that’s the only way to do. There ain’t no use of keeping things around to remind you of what
