Scene II.
(Room in home of Frank and Alice in Topsy Turvy Land,)
(Enter Frank and Alice.)
Alice—There! Just look at this room! I pick up and pick up, and the minute I go out, when I come back it’s all to do over again. I never was so sick of anything in all my life, as I am of this Topsy Turvy Land!
Frank—(placing chair correctly, and sitting down) I wish I could get hold of that Fairy for a few minutes, that’s what!
Alice—(also sitting down) What could you do with a fairy, I’d like to know? She’d do something to you before you could say “Jack Robinson.” (She looks up, crossly, as Knarf enters and seats himself on a chair, just as it is.) I do wish, Knarf, you’d learn to knock!
Knarf—And I do wish, Alice, that you’d remember that our music teacher has told us over and over, never to knock, even if you do request it, since it is a bad breach of good manners to do so.
Ecila—(entering and seating herself) Don’t you like company, really, Alice?
Alice—Why, I like you, Ecila, as well, or better, than anything else in this awful place. But—(begins to cry) Oh, I’m so homesick, and so tired of everything being topsy turvy! If I could go home, I’d never complain about minding again, or rules, either!