Where is She? How is it you're not at her heels?

TOBY-DOG (embarrassed, nibbling his nails)

She's in the garden I believe, picking up plums.

KIKI-THE-DEMURE

Those yellow balls that rain about one's ears? I know them. You've seen her then? I bet She scolded you ... What have you been doing now?

TOBY-DOG (self-conscious, turning away his wrinkled, toad-like face)

She told me to return to the house because—because I too, was eating plums.

KIKI-THE-DEMURE

She did well! You have depraved tastes—the tastes of men.

TOBY-DOG (offended)