Act 2, Scene 3 Summary

As Guy finishes his song as MacHeath, lights come up on Rebecca's back garde, where she sits waiting. When the song is done, Guy joins her. She offers him tea, a drink, and a cigarette, all of which he refuses. She tells him that she thinks he is going to be a great MacHeath, Dafydd is lucky to have him, and that he's "jollied ...… up" everybody in the cast in different ways. She then suggests that it is time he made her day in the same way as he has made the days of so many people.

They mime making small talk as Ted, Enid and Jarvis sing a song from Beggar's Opera about the joys of youth.

When the song finishes, Rebecca brings the conversation back around to the favor she wants and reassures Guy that she does not want...