Summary

Scene Seven is titled “Brewer and Duckling Go Rowing,” and is set in a boat. Brewer is with Duckling. Brewer chatters about the view and how the colony is expanding in an effort to get the silent and angry Duckling to cheer up. Eventually, she confronts him about how he keeps trying to keep her from talking to other people. He accuses her of wanting to be with other men, and suddenly erupts in anger, calling her a “filthy whore” (36) and then immediately apologizes, begging for her to just be with him. First angrily and then seductively, she tells him she just wants to be left alone sometimes. He says she has to earn her time by herself, and she says she would have had all the freedom she wanted if he had let her be hanged. He then suggests that she...