(putting away dishes)
Why?
GORDON
I don't think she's as well as usual. She hardly ate any of her salad.
LAURA
(turns as though about to say somethings but checks herself and pauses a moment. This time it is she who tries honorably to avert the gathering storm)
Oh, Gordie, I forgot to tell you! Junior drank out of a cup to-day—the first time!
GORDON
He did! The little rascal!