MRS. M. That’s that absurd Tennant man again. You’re not in love with him, I hope?
MAGGIE. [promptly.] Not a scrap! I find him rather dull.
MRS. M. Then what is it?
MAGGIE. I should like Walter to go out and seek his fortune instead of getting it in a coal merchant’s office.
MRS. M. He mightn’t come back.
MAGGIE. [thoughtfully.] Perhaps he wouldn’t.
Click of gate.
MRS. M. There’s the gate, Maggie.
MAGGIE goes out R. She comes back in a moment, followed by LILY. LILY goes to her mother and kisses her. She looks at her father.
LILY. Father asleep?