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Still, one must admit that it tickles the fancy to picture the great moments of revised classics, with transformed characters uttering new sets of lines. There is the doorway to the mansion. There are the hallway and the stairs. Arthur O'Hara is about to plead with Margaret Butler to give him one more chance and not to leave.
He cries out, distraught: "Oh, my darling, if you go, what shall I do?"
She faces him squarely. "Frankly, my dear, I don t give a damn what others may think. I'm going to swallow my pride and stay here forever."
—By Roger Rosenblatt