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THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED
Ah Gee
[As he puts down dishes]: Velly good dinner to-night, Missy. Beans an’ roas’ veal an’ apple pie!
Tony
[Calling from off stage]: Eh, Joe! Eh, JOE! W’ere you go like dat? Amy! W’ere are you, Amy? [He comes up on to the porch.] Ah! Here you are!
Ah Gee
Oh, Bossy! Velly good dinner to-night, Apple pie!
Tony
[Pleased]: Ah! Apples pie!
[Ah Gee goes into his kitchen. Tony leans against door.]
Amy! W’y you no’ come back?
Amy
[Who has been clinging desperately to the back of a chair]: I don’t know!
Tony
You leave me alone so long.
Amy
I just come in for the papers and . . .