Mrs. Thornbury
We agree with him, Mrs. Gilliam.
Mrs. Gilliam
Only yesterday I gave five hundred pounds of coffee and sugar to the Salvation Army!
Dilly
And today father jumped the price of sugar to thirty-two cents!
Mrs. Thornbury
Now—Dilly!
Mrs. Gilliam
[With rising emotion]: One gets precious little reward.... I can tell you! I sent helpful thoughts from the Bible to all Mr. Gilliam's employes! Now they're on strike, and the man that got "Be content with your wages" is leading the strikers!... Where's the Star of Bethlehem? [To conceal her agitation, she has turned to the box.]