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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 . . .