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(Lights come up on the eating garden. Early TOBIAS : Oh, you're so good to me, mum. Some-
evening. The place is deserted. Mrs. Lovett times, when I think what it was like with
is sitting on the steps knitting a half-finished Signor Pirelli - - it seems like the Good
muffler. The bells of St. Dunstan '.s sound. Lord sent you for me.
After a beat, Tobias emerges from the shop
with a "Sold Out" sign, puts it on the sho_p MRS. LOVETT: It's just my warm heart, dear. Room enough
door, and goes to Mrs. Lovett) there for all God's creatures.

TOBIAS : I put the sold-out sign up, mum. TOBIAS : (Coming closer, hovering, very earnest) You
know, mum, there's nothing I wouldn't do
MRS. LOVETT: That's my boy. (Holding up the knitting) for you. If there was a monster or an ogre
Look, dear! A lovely muffler and guess who or anything bad like that wot was after you,
it's for. I'd rip it apart with my bare fists, I would.

TOBIAS: Coo! .Forme? MRS. LOVETT : What a sweet child it is.

MRS. LOVETT : Wouldn't you like to know! TOBIAS : ... Or even if it was just a man ...

MRS. LOVETT: (Somewhat uneasy) A man, dear?

TOBIAS: (Exaggeratedly conspiratorial) A man wot

was bad ...

No. 23 NOT WHILE I'M AROUND

(TOBIAS, MRS. LOVETT)

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I unbeknownst into his evil deeds, like. What arc you talking about?
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foolish chatter? Let's just sit nice and quiet That's his purse!
for a bit. Here. (She pulls out the chatelaine
MRS. LOVETT: (Concealing what is now almost panic)
purse, which is now immediately recogniz·
able to the audience as Pirelli 's money purse, Silly boy! It's just a linle something Mr . .a.
and starts to fumble in it for a bon-bon) T . gave me for my birthday. -.,

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TOBIAS: get it? How did he get it?
Signor Pirelli 's purse! (Mrs. Lovett, realizing
her slip, quickly bides it)
MRS. LOVETT : Bought it, dear, in the pawnshop, dear.
(To distract him, she lifts the unfinished
MRS. LOVETT: (Stalling for time) What's that? What was
that, dear? muffler on its needks) Come on, now.

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