MARIANO

Ha! He return from the kitchen with those national dish.

ETHEL

[glancing in the doorway]

How horrid!

[MICHELE backs out on the stoop from the doorway laughing, carrying a platter of ham and eggs.]

MICHELE

He have gone to wash himself at the street fountain.

[Tumult outside reaches its height, the shouts of "Yanka Dooda!" predominating.][pg 048]

VASILI