Question 30: What did you enjoy the most about this seminar?

One: What I enjoyed most about this seminar was improving myself. I feel greatly improved from what I was when I first arrived. And I believe I can be a better wife, mother, and host after this. I mean hostess.
Two: It was funny when Betty caught Martha jacking off in the showers and raised a riot. You’d think Onan hadn’t gotten there first, the way Betty talked.
Twelve: Oh, my god.
One: Glad you found that amusing, clown.
Two: Yeah, this month has been chocked full of entertaining moments. Lots of inspiration.
Three: I have found it inspiring too. I managed to fill up an entire notebook worth of poetry. I think it’s the best material I have ever written.^[1]
Four: The stately linden tree. That is all.
Five: I really enjoyed this. It felt like I was going on a real adventure again, especially when I went with Marge to pick up provisions every week.
Six: I did like picking up provisions with her, even though she did kept insisting I stop the bus to take a picture all the time.
Five: But then we did have fun when we stopped at that quarry to swim. Even though we did forget our swimming costumes.
Six: Yeah…shame.
Seven: I liked the solitude of being away from news about sports. Though I do keep thinking of the start of the NFL season. And hockey. Still, I feel I will be able to keep away from gambling.
Three: I did not drink a drop of liquor! That is, once I ran out of secret vodka and went through the DTs. Dr. Engelbert has really cured us.
Eight: I have enjoyed being away from the house. I don’t know if I have improved any, but I enjoyed being around friends.
Nine: I enjoyed being around my best friend, Rose.
One: I enjoyed being around Mary, but not as much as you enjoyed being around Rose.
Eleven: Yes, I enjoyed being around Betty, but what I enjoyed most is being around everyone from the cul de sac.
Ten: I think I am becoming used to being around other people. It is becoming part of my programming.
Twelve: Everyone else is looking forward. But I gotta say, camping with all you girls is reminding me of my childhood when I went to the Catskill Mountains with my troop.
Eleven: You were in the Girl Scouts?
Twelve: No, it was a co-ed group called the Young Pioneers.
One: The Young Pioneers! So you are a Commie?
Twelve: What? Huh? No! Are they a Communist front?
One: Communist front? The Young Pioneers are the entire store!
Six: Girl, the Young Pioneers are the Soviet form of scouting. How the Hell do you not know that?
Twelve: Huh, they didn’t really teach us about Marxism, just how to pitch a tent and whittle wood.
One: I can’t believe I spent a month with a Communist.
Eleven: Martha was only a child then. And she is an adult now, who is not a Communist at all.
Twelve: Yeah, my parents took me out of it after the summer of 1939.^[2] And anyway, I only spent two years in it.
Eleven: See? She’s not a Communist.
One: I suppose you are right. She’s just a stupid, stupid girl.
Eleven: This does show how much the Communist infiltrated New York City, especially the Jewish population. Thankful fighters like Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn are working to clean it up.
One: Yes, maybe we can get away from the Sodom and Gomorrah of the ‘30s before we all turn into pillars of salt.
Five: I think if everyone went through this self-improvement seminar, we could see a better world.
One: As long as we don’t invite the Communists …
Five: Wow, Miss Fisher, that was quite a poignant sentiment. We will surely all be friends until the very end indeed.