names? Tom, Dick or Harry. [Getting up] I’m off down to the bees. Derry: I think you’re daft....
crazy.... Mr. Lamb: That’s a good excuse. Derry: What for?
You don’t talk sense. Mr. Lamb: Good excuse not to come back. And you’ve got a burned-up face, and that’s other people’s excuse.
Derry: You’re like the others, you like to say things like that. If you don’t feel sorry for my face, you’re frightened of it, and if you’re not frightened, you think I’m ugly as a devil. I am a devil. Don’t you?
[ Shouts] [ Mr. Lamb does not reply. He has gone to his bees.] Derry: [Quietly] No. You don’t.
I like it here. [Pause. Derry gets up and shouts.] I’m going. But I’ll come back.
You see. You wait. I can run. I haven’t got a tin leg.
I’ll be back. [Derry runs off. Silence. The sounds of the garden again.] Mr.
Lamb: (to himself ) There my dears. Ah .... you know. We all know.
I’ll come back. They never do, though... Not them. never do come back.
(The garden noises fade) SCENE TWO Derry’s house Mother: You think I don’t know about him, you think. I haven’t heard things? Derry: You shouldn’t believe all you hear. Mother: Been told.
Warned. We’ve not lived here three months, but I know what there is to know and you’re not to go back there. Derry: What are you afraid of? What do you think he is?
An old man with a tin leg and he lives in a huge house without curtains and has a garden. And I want to be there, and sit and....listen to things. Listen and look. Unit- - THE CHALLENGE - - - Mother: Listen to what?
Derry: Bees singing. Him talking. Mother: And what’s he got to say to you? Derry: Things that matter.
Things nobody else has ever said. Things I want to think about. Mother: Then you stay here and do your thinking. You’re best off here.
Derry: I hate it here. Mother: You can’t help the things you