Wrapping up Scene 140 with today's first quote -
Page 62/Scene 140 - Barnabas: 'But it does. You see I was called out of town. Where's Elizabeth? I'd like to see her.'
- coming up.
And when it comes to the dialogue and the notations, as we can see in today's capture -
- three things are actually going on, or rather two are and one isn't: Jeff hands Maggie a cup of something -
- which follows along with the end of the notation for Jeff which fully reads "he comes to Maggie with a drink", though the cup has been barely noticeable until now; there is a notation that indicates Roger would "cross 3 steps rt of Barn" as he tells Jeff his question doesn't bear further discussion, but as we can see by comparing yesterday's capture for Roger's quote and the above capture for Barnabas today -
- Roger is still standing by Barnabas in the same spot; and Barnabas turns to Roger as he begins to deliver -
- today's quote - and when it comes to the first half of that quote, Barnabas actually delivers it as "Oh, but it does. I was called out of town", dropping the "You see" - and there's a notation that indicates Barnabas would "x to table to put cane down" - and while Barnabas does cross to the table -
- as he explains he was called out of town, an excuse that doesn't seem -
- to make an impression on Jeff, as Barnabas asks about Liz, he's holding his cane as he's by the table, and as we can see in the following capture where Roger starts to say an unscripted -
"She's up--"
- with regard to where Liz is before getting cut off by the start of Scene 141 (which we will begin to deal with later), Barnabas is still holding his cane. So, who knows if putting the cane on the table was simply dropped or Frid merely forgot to do it?