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ACT I 1-12-70 Rev. 4/9/8 Scene 12 SETTING: INTERIOR, PONTIPEE barn AT RISE: ADAM ENTERS center and watches his BROTHERS who are sitting forelornly all over the barn: ADAM (breaking the slinece) If you could just get a look at yourselves! You all been lookin' like a bunch of lovesick bull calves for more n?╟╓ a month now. Why don't you boys make everybody happy and just go marry those girls? GIDEON Them townspeople won't even let us into town. EPHRAIM How can we marry 'em if we can't court 'em? ADAM Who says ya have to court 'em? DANIEL Milly says we do. ADAM Milly? Did I have to court her? Just go marry 'em. CALEB (ironically) Oh, sure. Go marry 'em. Just like that! BENJAMIN They wouldn't let us marry them for a thousand years. ADAM (remembering the book he's been reading) Well, why don't you just do like them Romans did with them Sobbin' Wimmin or Saybine Wimmin or whatever they called 'em. (the BROTHERS listen, puzzled, impatient)