Amos (entering). Well, Polly, I’ve come for the answer to that letter.
(Pauline slips out.)
Aunt P. Why, Amos, aren’t you a stranger? How do you do?
Amos. I’ll tell you how I’m going to do. I’m going to have an answer to that letter.
Aunt P. What letter? Do sit down, Amos! You make me nervous.
Amos (seating himself). Well, I’ve sat down. Now how about the answer to that letter?
Aunt P. That letter?
Amos. Yes, that letter. It’s no use to fence for time, Polly. I’m going to have an answer. Didn’t you get a valentine letter from me to-day?
Aunt P. Amos, you never sent that letter to-day. It was old. It looked old, and it had a three-cent stamp. Three-cent stamps have been out of use thirty years and more.