Complete Works, Volume IV. Harold Pinter

over it.

      ANNA She does, yes.

      DEELEY A hell of a long time. Luxuriates in it. Gives herself a great soaping all over.

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      Really soaps herself all over, and then washes the soap off, sud by sud. Meticulously. She’s both thorough and, I must say it, sensuous. Gives herself a comprehensive going over, and apart from everything else she does emerge as clean as a new pin. Don’t you think?

      ANNA Very clean.

      DEELEY Truly so. Not a speck. Not a tidemark. Shiny as a balloon.

      ANNA Yes, a kind of floating.

      DEELEY What?

      ANNA She floats from the bath. Like a dream. Unaware of anyone standing, with her towel, waiting for her, waiting to wrap it round her. Quite absorbed.

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