Rhetta: What are you doing?
Belasco: Baking a cake.
Rhetta: May I please speak with you?
Belasco: If I say no, would it stop you?
Rhetta: When will you leave Oliveretta alone?
Belasco: Olive and I have a great thing going on.
Rhetta: Yes, you use her until you are bored, you wait for her to get interesting again, and then you repeat the cycle.
Belasco: Your point?
Rhetta: My point is that it is both unkind and detrimental to our community!
Belasco: Look, sugar, as long as we do our job, what else do you want?
Rhetta: Have you forgotten what a company in unison can accomplish in this place?
Belasco: Have you forgotten how annoying you are?
Rhetta: I need you to focus.
Belasco: What do you think I'm doing right now? (He focuses the light straight downward, a stark white beam)
Rhetta: Cute.
Belasco: (Climbing down from his perch) Look, Rhetta. I understand that you're passionate about our job. I see that this really matters to you. I know that under your high collar and your bustle, your heart and soul are devoted to this.
Rhetta: My bustle is of no concern to you.
Belasco: I admit. I had forgotten what that kind of commitment, that kind of passion is like.
(Alicia enters, unseen.)
Rhetta: That is because you have never committed yourself to anything.
Belasco: I may not be capable of commitment, but I assure you I am not lacking in passion.
(He kisses her. Rhetta slaps Belasco.)
Rhetta: You are a disgusting, appalling man.
Belasco: But a good kisser, right?
(Rhetta exits. Belasco turns and sees Alicia.)
Belasco: You want a turn?
(Alicia shakes head no. Belasco laughs, exits.)
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