Setting: Five women gathered in a courtyard garden for conversation

Time: Christ's ministry

Characters:
Shirlee
Diane
Nancy
Carol
Karen
Patti

SHIRLEE: Nonsense!

DIANE: Quit acting as though you are the only intelligent person present (Pause) ... please.

SHIRLEE: Oh, good grief, don't be so offended, but really, miracles? Every year there is some new magician, some new mystic, some awesome miracle worker. (Standing, assuming a mocking tone.) I will make the blind see. I will make the deaf hear. I will cleanse the leper. My God, how many times have we heard that? Every year.

NANCY: Amen. Every year! It has gotten boring.

DIANE: I am no fool ... I'd appreciate being treated differently than one.

SHIRLEE: I didn't say you were.

CAROL: I've heard about his miracles too, and from some v…