NORA: It's all of us! Haven't we all done this thing together?
FRANKEL: Well, who's got to pay it?
NORA: We've all got to!
SHOMBERG, SALVATORE, FRANKEL, AND MRS. SIMPSON: You expect to git blood out of a stone? What do you take us for? You're crazy! You helped get us into this! [SHOMBERG and SALVATORE begin shouting at each other.]
SHOMBERG: You pay me back that twenty-five dollars you got from me
Friday!
SALVATORE: How I'm goin' to pay you twenty-five dollars when I'm seventeen thousand dollars in debt?
SHOMBERG: I'll have that money!
[He takes a paper weight from desk.]
SALVATORE: You throw that at me, I'll give you a little sticker where you won't like it!
[Puts his hand in the breast of his coat. Murder appears imminent. Sudden and general dispersal from the neighbourhood of the combatants, which brings NORA to GIBSON, unconsciously seeking his protection.]