zoe
(Points.) Hum? Deep as a drawwell. (Lynch bends Kitty back over the sofa and kisses her. Bloom goes with the poundnote to Stephen.)
bloom
This is yours.
stephen
How is that? Le distrait or absentminded beggar. (He fumbles again in his pocket and draws out a handful of coins. An object falls.) That fell.
bloom
(Stooping, picks up and hands a box of matches.) This.
stephen
Lucifer. Thanks.
bloom
(Quietly.) You had better hand over that cash to me to take care of. Why pay more?
stephen
(Hands him all his coins.) Be just before you are generous.
bloom
I will but is it wise? (He counts.) One, seven, eleven, and five. Six. Eleven. I don’t answer for what you may have lost.
stephen
Why striking eleven? Proparoxyton. Moment before the next Lessing says. Thirsty fox. (He laughs loudly.) Burying his grandmother. Probably he killed her.
bloom
That is one pound six and eleven. One pound seven, say.
stephen
Doesn’t matter a rambling damn.
bloom
No, but…
