Thirty Pieces of Silver: A Play in Three Acts Read Online Free

thinks’ and what he is. You would know whether or not that man was a Communist—or a Republican—or a Seventh Day Adventist.
    DAVID Maybe I would. I don’t know if Agronsky’s a Communist, if that’s what you’re asking me.
    FULLER What do you think?
    DAVID I don’t know. I never really thought about it. As a matter of fact, I never knew a Communist, so I wouldn’t be able to recognize one if I ran smack up against him. About Franco—well, I would guess Agronsky doesn’t like him. We’ve never talked directly about it, but I would think so from what I know of him. He doesn’t like fascism.
    FULLER Red fascism as well as the other kind?
    DAVID I don’t know how you mean that.
    JANE I don’t like Franco. Does that make me a Communist?
    FULLER I don’t know, Mrs. Graham.
    DAVID ( smiling uneasily ) Well, just for the record, she isn’t. Neither am I.
    FULLER And Agronsky?
    DAVID I’ve no reason to think he is. I don’t know that I ever talked directly about Communists with him——
    ( The bell rings. JANE goes to answer, greets GRACE LANGLY offstage, and comes back into the room leading a Negro woman. This is GRACE LANGLY, about thirty, dark, intelligent looking, with contained dignity. )
    JANE Hilda’s in the kitchen, still struggling with Lorry’s supper.
    DAVID (in the most matter of fact way, still struggling with his thoughts in relation to FULLER ) Hello, Grace.
    GRACE Good evening, Mr. Graham. This is certainly a fine summer evening, isn’t it?
    DAVID Yes——
    ( For all that he and FULLER are superficially alike , DAVID is at the disadvantage here, wholly so, fighting basically to understand what is the best required response to each situation on his part. )
    I know——
    FULLER ( looking at GRACE ) Yes, Mrs. Graham?
    JANE This is Mrs. Langly. Grace, this is Mr. Fuller.
    GRACE How do you do, Mr. Fuller.
    ( FULLER looks evenly at her. She meets his gaze for a moment, then turns and goes into the kitchen. )
    FULLER ( to JANE) YOU keep two in help?
    JANE No. She’s a friend of Hilda. That’s the woman you met before.
    FULLER Oh—I see. You’re a Southerner, aren’t you, Mrs. Graham?
    JANE Yes. I’m from South Carolina originally.
    ( FULLER nods slowly, regarding JANE deliberately and curiously. )
    Is that a crime too?
    FULLER Not at all. Quite to the contrary. You talk my language—which’ is more than I can say of most New Yorkers. Or at least, I thought you did. What were you going to say before, Mr. Graham?
    DAVID Nothing important.
    FULLER If it concerned Agronsky, why don’t you let me decide if it was important?
    DAVID Only that I saw a copy of. The New Masses in his house once. I don’t know how it happened to be there or whether it’s of any importance at all.
    JANE David!
    FULLER You don’t object to that, do you, Mrs. Graham?
    JANE I can’t see that it makes any sense. Suppose you found a copy of The New Masses here?
    FULLER Let me decide what makes sense, Mrs. Graham. We’re all of us good Americans and devoted to protecting our country. Or at least I think we are.
    (to DAVID )
    What about Agronsky’s friends?
    DAVID ( his uneasiness and uncertainty increasing ) Just ordinary people—the sort of people you’d find around Washington.
    FULLER But Agronsky isn’t just the sort of people you’d find around Washington, is he?
    JANE What are you trying to make us say, Mr. Fuller? We’re not holding anything back. You’re not asking questions—you’re forming implications.
    FULLER You’re forming the implications, Mrs. Graham.
    DAVID Please, Jane, let me handle this. If Mr. Fuller asks me something, let me try to answer it. God knows, I want to.
    FULLER Exactly. I’m not a private detective and I’m not a policeman—and certainly you’ve got nothing to fear from me. If anything, I’m wholly and