[Enter Sally with fur-lined carriage shoes,
which she places beside the wraps.
Sally. Mrs. Darling wanted those warmed in the kitchen. I sh'd think all these fur fixin's 'd be warm enough without no stove.
Catherine [sullenly]. You going, too, I suppose?
Sally. Why, yes. Ain't I done everything? There's no need of me staying, is there?
Catherine. No, I don't suppose there is. I just thought you might be, that's all.
Sally. Tell you what I'd like to do!
Catherine. What'd you like to do, Sally?
Sally [confidentially]. That's to come back again after I've been home for just a minute.
Catherine [looks up, unable to conceal her interest]. You don't mean just to oblige, do you, Sally?
Sally. Well, I'd do it in a minute, for nothing else beside, but that ain't quite all I was thinking of, just this once. Miss Catherine—— [hesitates, then continues enthusiastically] ——have you seen 'em in there? The whole hundred of 'em laid out in the alcove here. [Draws back curtain a little, partly disclosing the couch with an array of daintily dressed dolls. They pick up one or two, and look them over admiringly.] I saw 'em last night when Mrs. Bonnet she sent me up for the lamps to clean, and I've been thinkin' about it ever since. Law! wouldn't any child like to see a sight like that! There's a little girl in my tenement, she'd just go crazy. Do you think there'd be any harm in it, if I was to bring her over and let her get one peep? She's as clean a child as ever you saw. She comes of dreadful poor folks, but just as respectable. She never seen anything like it in her life. Law, what would I have done when I was a young one, if I'd seen that? I'd thought I was dead and gone to heaven. I say, Miss Catherine, do you think anybody'd mind?