the beginning of the Adele song] from the other side. . .” “Hello You had sex with my husband. You’d better get another chair because I’m not leaving. And I don’t want to go inside where I might smell the sex still lingering in your apartment. I’ll hold your laptop. [ROSE hands BASMA her laptop and exits into her apartment. BASMA opens laptop, works briefly on the keyboard and finishes, closes the laptop just as ROSE comes out with another chair] ROSE I’m Rose. Mrs.— ROSE I— BASMA Call me Basma. This is a beautiful area. I went to school in New York City. I hear they finally let women into your school. ROSE I didn’t go here. I teach here. BASMA If you were a student here and still hadn’t graduated, you being very, very dumb would have sapped all of their government grant money trying to educate you. You may still be very, very dumb, certainly about your personal life. I think you are. ROSE I didn’t know he was married. BASMA Would it have made a difference? ROSE No. BASMA
the beginning of the Adele song] “Hello from the other side. . .” You had sex with my husband. You’d better get another chair because I’m not leaving. And I don’t want to go inside where I might smell the sex still lingering in your apartment. I’ll hold your laptop. [ROSE hands BASMA her laptop and exits into her apartment. BASMA opens laptop, works briefly on the keyboard and finishes, closes the laptop just as ROSE comes out with another chair] ROSE I’m Rose. Mrs.— ROSE I— BASMA Call me Basma. This is a beautiful area. I went to school in New York City. I hear they finally let women into your school. ROSE I didn’t go here. I teach here. BASMA If you were a student here and still hadn’t graduated, you being very, very dumb would have sapped all of their government grant money trying to educate you. You may still be very, very dumb, certainly about your personal life. I think you are. ROSE I didn’t know he was married. BASMA Would it have made a difference? ROSE No. BASMA