[
Inga's boyfriend knocks on her window after she is back home from her sexual awakening in Stockholm]
Helen - Inga's friend:
[
sitting with Inga in her room] Here are the boys. Ole wants to take you to the movie.
Inga:
I have to ask mother first.
[
after Inga settles in her sister's and Carsten's apartment]
Carsten - Greta's boyfriend:
What are you taking at school?
Inga:
I'm taking the required program.
Carsten - Greta's boyfriend:
Do you like it?
Inga:
Yes.
Carsten - Greta's boyfriend:
[
lights a cigarette] Smoke?
Inga:
No, thank you.
Carsten - Greta's boyfriend:
You don't smoke. Do you drink?
Inga:
No.
Carsten - Greta's boyfriend:
What DO you do?
Inga:
I'm in school.
Carsten - Greta's boyfriend:
Oh yes, I know, you just told me. But, I mean, after school?
Inga:
I do my homework.
Carsten - Greta's boyfriend:
Oh. How nice. But I mean at NIGHT, for excitement.
Inga:
Sometimes me and my friends are going to the movies.
Carsten - Greta's boyfriend:
Your friend?
Inga:
My boyfriend. We are going steady.
Carsten - Greta's boyfriend:
So you're going steady... what does that mean? Does it mean you're, ah, holding hands in public or maybe you read poetry together?
Inga:
Sometimes.
[
Carsten puts his hand on his face in frustration]
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