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-Mrs Pearson understands what Mrs fitzgerald is trying to say but she can't stand giving, them any discomfort. She wants to clear it out with her family and take her stand but she just, doesn’t know how to take the first step. Just as she is saying this, she notices that it's time, for everyone to come back home. Immediately, she gets worried about how nothing is ready, for them to come home to and they'll probably have to rush out again. She tries to get up and, make arrangements for her family, Mrs Fitzgerald stops her from doing so., , MRS FITZGERALD: Let ‘em wait or look after themselves for once. This is where your foot, goes down. Start now. [She lights a cigarette from the one she has just finished], , -Very easily, while lighting another cigarette, she asks Mrs Pearson to begin at the very, moment. She tells her to stop providing for them all the time and let them experience what it, feels like to do things on their own., , MRS PEARSON: [embarrassed] Mrs Fitzgerald —| know you mean well —in fact, | agree with, you—but | just can‘t—and it’s no use you trying to make me. If | promise you I'd really have it, out with them, | know | wouldn't be able to keep my promise., , -Even though in the hearts of hearts Mrs Pearson knows that Mrs Fitzgerald is right, she, tells her that it is almost impossible for her to obey it, She feels that there is no point in giving, a promise she won't be able to keep,, , MRS FITZGERALD: Then let me do it., -She asks Mrs Pearson to let her do the hard part and teach Mrs Pearson's family a, lesson., , MRS PEARSON: [flustered] Oh no—thank you very much, Mrs Fitzgerald —but that wouldn't do, at all. It couldn't possibly be somebody else — they'd resent it at once and wouldn't listen—, and really | couldn't blame them. | know | ought to do it— but you see how it is? [She looks, apologetically across the table, smiling rather miserably.], , flustered agitated or confused, , Resent feel bitterness or indignation at a circumstance, action or person, , -Mrs Pearson tells her that she doesn't think it's a good idea. She says so because she, , knows that they might react to her changed behaviour at first but then would ignore it and, resort to their old ways. Also, Mrs Pearson doesn't blame them for this. She feels stuck, because she knows it needs to be done but is unable to do it., , MRS FITZGERALD: [coolly] You haven't got the idea., ~She tells Mrs Pearson that she has no idea how successful the idea can be, , MRS PEARSON: [bewildered] Oh I'm sorry—I thought you asked me to let you do it,, ~She thought that Mrs Fitzgerald wanted to take her place in the house and be strict with, her family., , MRS FITZGERALD: | did. But not as me— as you., ~She affirms that she meant the same but she will not be taking her place as herself. She, will become Mrs Pearson and then do her part., , MRS PEARSON: But-I don't understand. You couldn't be me., ~As confused as she can be at the moment, Mrs Pearson asks Mrs Fitzgerald to be a bit, more elaborate., , MRS FITZGERALD: [coolly] We change places. Or — really — bodies. You look like me. | look, like you., , —She proposes that they switch their places or in other words, change bodies wherein, Mrs Fitzgerald will look like Mrs Pearson and vice-versa., , MRS PEARSON: But that's impossible., -A bit more confused and now even surprised, Mrs Pearson expresses that this is