[_Despairingly_]. Sometimes, Harry, when I hear you big successful men in critical moments, I wonder how you ever got where you are. You know so little about why people do things. You ought to know, Harry, that Jack will be back in three days, ready to sing his heart out for you. LEE [_Impressively_]. You just take one look at that boy and you’ll change your mind. MARY Where is he? I’ve got to talk to him. LEE What do you want to do with him? MARY I’ve got to bring him back to his senses. He must not stay down here. It would ruin his whole career. LEE [_Thoughtfully_]. You can’t do anything with him.... Maybe you can with his mother.... That’s why I stayed behind. I want to talk to her just once more.... I want to convince her that he belongs to us, and not down here. MARY [_Sits, her voice deepens_]. Harry, have you met his mother? LEE Yes. MARY She’s real.... That’s why it took me so long to make up my mind. And then I realized that if I could show her the truth—[SARA _enters_]. How do you do, Mrs. Rabinowitz? SARA Hello, lady. Your name I don’t know, so excited I was in the theatre. You came maybe you should hear Jakie sing tonight? MARY Where is Jack, Mrs. Rabinowitz? I’d like to see him. SARA Right now you couldn’t see him. He’s in the synagogue. He’s practising with the choir. Open the window, and you could hear him just like you was sitting there. LEE Miss Dale wants to talk to Jack. SARA [_Stops, looks at_ LEE]. Miss Dale is from you a friend? MARY I’m a very good friend of Mr. Lee’s. SARA If you are a good friend from him, then with Jakie you shouldn’t speak tonight. MARY I’m afraid you don’t understand. I’m a good friend of Mr. Lee’s, but I’m also a very good friend of Jack’s. SARA A good friend from Jakie’s would leave him alone tonight. I am Jakie’s mama. Did I made him he should eat? No.... He wants he should practise with the choir. So I let him go hungry. Sometimes love lets people go hungry. MARY I love Jack, too, Mrs. Rabinowitz—and that’s why I want him to go to the theatre tonight.... It’s his one great opportunity. [_A pause._] You know, I found him. SARA You found him? MARY