Act 1, Scene 3, Part 2 Summary

Annie runs out of the back room with the mail, reveals that her package contains a new record, and gives Marie-Adele her letter. Annie says that there was a letter in the package from her daughter, telling her about the biggest bingo in the world, saying that the prize is five hundred thousand dollars, and that it's on September 8th. There is a moment of silence, and then all the women except Marie-Adele simultaneously scream in an explosion of excitement. They chatter about all the things they'd do if they won the money, and Emily says that she'd beat up Gazelle Nataways and then take Zhaboonigan down to San Francisco with her.

Marie-Adele announces quietly that the date for her surgery in Toronto is September 10th. She says, first to Nanabush and then to the other women that she...