LILIOM
Are you hungry?
JULIE
No. [Another pause.]
LILIOM
Suppose—you had some money—and I took it from you?
JULIE
Then you could take it, that’s all.
LILIOM
[After another brief silence.] All I have to do—is go back to her—that Muskat woman—she’ll be glad to get me back—then I’d be earning my wages again. [She is silent. The twilight folds darker about them.]