CHARLEY. If I did? What are you talking about?
MAGGIE. Why shouldn’t you?
CHARLEY. Why shouldn’t I? Aren’t there a thousand reasons?
MAGGIE. There’s Lily, certainly—but . . .
CHARLEY. She wouldn’t understand. She’d think I was deserting her.
A pause.
But that’s not all. I might manage her—I don’t know—but—you see, I’ve got a berth I can stay in all my life . . .
TENNANT starts singing the first verse of “Off to Philadelphia.”
It’s like throwing up a dead cert. And then. . . .
MAGGIE. It would be a splash.