Zoe: (Holds up her hand) Stop!
Private Carr, private Compton and Cissy Caffrey:
Yet I’ve a sort a
Yorkshire relish for ...
Zoe: That’s me. (She claps
her hands) Dance! Dance! (She runs
to the
pianola) Who has twopence?
Bloom: Who’ll ...?
Lynch: (Handing her coins) Here.
Stephen: (Cracking his fingers impatiently) Quick! Quick! Where’s my augur’s rod? (He runs to the piano and takes his ashplant, beating his foot in tripudium)
Zoe: (Turns the DRUMHANDLE) There.
(She drops two pennies in
the slot. Gold, pink and
violet lights start
forth. The drum turns purring
in low hesitation Waltz. Professor
Goodwin,
in A BOWKNOTTED periwig, in court
dress, wearing A stained Inverness
cape, bent in two from incredible
age, totters across the room,
his hands
fluttering. He sits tinily
on the PIANOSTOOL and lifts and
beats handless
sticks of arms on the keyboard,
nodding with damsel’s grace,
his bowknot
bobbing)
Zoe: (Twirls round herself,
HEELTAPPING) Dance. Anybody here for there?
Who’ll dance? Clear the table.
(The pianola with changing lights
plays in Waltz time the prelude
of My
Girl’s a Yorkshire Girl. Stephen throws
his ashplant on the table
and
seizes Zoe round the waist.
Florry and Bella push the
table towards the
fireplace. Stephen, arming Zoe
with exaggerated grace, begins
to Waltz
her round the room. Bloom
stands aside. Her sleeve filling
from gracing
arms reveals A white FLESHFLOWER of
vaccination. Between the curtains
professor Maginni inserts A leg