MANOLO: Poor Candida! Poor Paula! PEPANG: After all, we have been supporting them all these years. The least they can do is to be useful to us. And it’s about time they learned to be of some use. They’re certainly old enough! MANOLO: They’re too old to change. PEPANG: Oh, nonsense. The trouble with them is this house, this house! They’re buried alive here. It will do them good to be pulled out of here. We are really doing it only for their own good. MANOLO: And besides, good servants are so hard to get nowadays. PEPANG: And they will learn to be happy, they will learn to live. MANOLO: They are happy enough here, they have their own way of life. PEPANG: What way of life? Hiding from the world in this old house; turning over the family albums; chattering over childhood memories; worsh

