DAVID.
Yes, Sarah. I love the pearl when it is on the bottom of the sea; but after it is taken out of the sea, it becomes blood—and then I do not like pearls, Sarah.
ROSA.
Why do you despise my beauty, father? Do you know what another girl in my place would have done? She would have lost her mind and would have whirled about on earth like a dog that swallowed a pin. But what am I doing? I am studying, father. I am studying by day and night, father.
In great agitation.
I don't know anything. I don't know how to speak, I don't even know how to walk—I stoop, I stoop as I walk.
SARAH.
That isn't true, Rosa.
ROSA.
Agitated.