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.]