A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

[The Matron releases her. Blanche extends her hands toward the Doctor. He draws her up gently and supports her with his arm and leads her through the portieres.]

  BLANCHE [holding tight to his arm]:

  Whoever you are--I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

  [The poker players stand back as Blanche and the Doctor cross the kitchen to the front door. She allows him to lead her as if she were blind. As they go out on the porch, Stella cries out her sister's name from where she is crouched a few steps up on the stairs.]

  [Blanche walks on without turning, followed by the Doctor and the Matron. They go around the corner of the building.]

  [Eunice descends to Stella and places the child in her arms. It is wrapped in a pale blue blanket. Stella accepts the child, sobbingly. Eunice continues downstairs and enters the kitchen where the men, except for Stanley, are returning silently to their places about the table. Stanley has gone out on the porch and stands at the foot of the steps looking at Stella.]

  STANLEY [a bit uncertainly]:

  Stella?

  [She sobs with inhuman abandon. There is something luxurious in her complete surrender to crying now that her sister is gone.]

  STANLEY [voluptuously, soothingly]:

  Now, honey. Now, love. Now, now, love.

  [He kneels beside her and his fingers find the opening of her blouse] Now, now, love. Now, love....

  [The luxurious sobbing, the sensual murmur fade away under the swelling music of the "blue piano" and the muted trumpet.]

  STEVE:

  This game is seven-card stud.

  The End

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