Benjamin:
[a knock on the apartment door as Ben's shaving]
Who is it?
Elaine:
[Elaine enters the room]
I want to ask you a question, and then I'm going!
Benjamin:
Come in.
Elaine:
No. I want to know why you're here in Berkeley.
Benjamin:
Because... I am.
Elaine:
Is it because I'm here?
Benjamin:
What do you think?
Elaine:
I think it is. I said, "I think it is!"
Benjamin:
All right, then yes.
Elaine:
Well, I want you to leave.
Benjamin:
Well, look, I love you!
Elaine:
How could you do that, Benjamin? Do you just hate everything? How could you possibly rape my mother?
Benjamin:
What?
Elaine:
I don't understand. I don't understand how you...
Benjamin:
Did you say "rape her"?
Elaine:
How you or anyone could do a thing like that!
Benjamin:
What did she say? You've got to tell me what she said!
Elaine:
Why?
Benjamin:
Because it isn't true! Tell me!
Elaine:
She said that she was having a drink at the hotel with a friend, and that you... waited for her in the parking lot, and told her that she was too drunk to drive home, and that you would get her a room for the night.
Benjamin:
Oh, then what?
Elaine:
Then you took her upstairs, and you raped her.
Benjamin:
Oh, no no, that's not what happened. What happened was that there was this party at my parents, I drove your mother home...
Elaine:
I don't want to hear this!
Benjamin:
Then we went upstairs to see your portrait...
Elaine:
No, I don't!
Benjamin:
When we got up in the room, she started taking her clothes off...
Elaine:
This is my mother, Benjamin!
Benjamin:
And suddenly, there she was without any clothes on, I mean, reallly naked!
Elaine:
Okay!
[Elaine screams hysterically, lying face down on Ben's bed, crying]
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