[General agitation and excitement.]

MRS. SIMPSON [trembling with rage and fear]: You mean to stand there and tell me we ain't goin' to git any money to-day, and my flat rent to pay to-morrow?

RILEY: Don't talk about your flat rent to me, lady! There's others of us got a few things to pay.

SHOMBERG: But, my golly, when do we git paid?

CARTER: I can't make out from what he's got here.

SALVATORE [rapping fiercely on the table]: Hey! I got to have my money!

CARTER: Well, I got to have mine, don't I?

SIMPSON: Go on. See what else it says.

CARTER: Well, here he's got this. Here it says: "Bills payable, $17,162.48."

FRANKEL [leaping up]: Bills payable! My God, no money in bank, and we're $17,162.48 in debt!