else.
WENDY: What?
MARY PAGE: He wants . . . he wants to keep you guys for the rest of the school year while I go down to Kentucky. He wants me to come up and stay with you on the weekends while he goes to stay at your Aunt Leigh’s. He wants you to come down to Lexington to live with me starting this summer.
WENDY: So he gets exactly what he wants.
MARY PAGE: Yes.
WENDY: What do you want?
MARY PAGE: Your father and I talked about this and we agree about the way to do this. Wendy, please, I know this is hard—
WENDY: I wish you’d stop saying that.
MARY PAGE: I know this is hard, but it’s the best solution to a bad problem.
WENDY: Why can’t you just say what you want?
MARY PAGE: We’ll get through this. We’re just moving. We’re just going to move.
WENDY: To Kentucky.
MARY PAGE: Do you really think Lexington is that much worse than Dayton?
WENDY: Yes!
MARY PAGE: Really?
WENDY: Mom, they’re a bunch of hicks! They’re coal miners!
MARY PAGE: What do you know about coal miners—?
WENDY: You know what I mean! I don’t want to spend my last two years in high school with a bunch of hillbillies!
MARY PAGE: This isn’t Paris. This isn’t, y’know . . . Tokyo—
WENDY: No, Mom, God, don’t make me finish high school in Kentucky.
MARY PAGE: Do you really think a couple of hundred miles makes that much difference? Every place is the same. And I have to say this, it’s hard for you to see it now, this is sad, and it’s not the way we wanted it, but this is not a tragedy. Two people . . . your dad and I fell out of love with each other, it’s not like somebody died, or somebody got sick—
WENDY: Is that what happened, you and Daddy fell out of love?
MARY PAGE: Yes.
WENDY: That’s what he says?
MARY PAGE: We agree that this is the way to do this.
WENDY: God, listen to you. It’s like you’re in the Kremlin.
MARY PAGE: Louis?
LOUIS: Yeah?
MARY PAGE: Do you have any questions, sweetie?
LOUIS: No.
MARY PAGE: Okay.
WENDY: What’s your job?
MARY PAGE: The same job. Different firm.
WENDY: What happened to your old job?
MARY PAGE: I lost it.
WENDY: How’d you lose it?
MARY PAGE: They let me go.
WENDY: Why?
MARY PAGE: They no longer needed me.
WENDY: Why?
MARY PAGE: Wendy.
WENDY: Well, why?
LOUIS: What happens to Spooky?
MARY PAGE: Spooky will stay with you, in the house, in your dad’s house. Then when you guys come live with me, Spooky will come with you. You can keep Spooky.
WENDY: Great. He can keep pissing on my choir robe down in Kentucky.
MARY PAGE: Maybe you’ll hang up your choir robe in Kentucky.
WENDY: It’s my fault the cat pisses on my stuff? (Pause) Like they even have choir in Kentucky.
MARY PAGE: Yes, they have choir in Kentucky. People don’t stop singing just because they cross the state line.
WENDY: Daddy should be here for this conversation.
MARY PAGE: He thought I should be the one to tell you.
WENDY: He thought?
MARY PAGE: We thought.
WENDY: Are we still Gilberts?
MARY PAGE: What?
WENDY: Our name. Am I still Wendy Gilbert?
MARY PAGE: Yes. You’re still Wendy Gilbert. You’re still Louis Gilbert.
WENDY: Daddy’s still Sonny Gilbert. What about you, are you still Mary Page Gilbert, or do you go back to your old name?
MARY PAGE: I haven’t, I don’t know. No, I’ll go back to Marlowe.
WENDY: Who set that book on fire? (Pause) I came down for breakfast the other day and that book Elephants Can Remember was on the coffee table and a bunch of pages were burned in the back of it.
MARY PAGE: Dad and me . . . we’ve had some . . . we, uh . . . we’ve had a lot of . . . (Pause) This is really hard . . .
LOUIS: “Kentucky.”
MARY PAGE (Smiles, nods at Louis, long pause): Sometimes we do things we shouldn’t do.
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