CURTAIN
ACT II
Time: Christmas morning.
Scene: Sitting-room, with large old-fashioned fireplace[10] [back Center]. Toys scattered about. A small blackboard to left of fireplace. Dick and Dot sitting in little chairs. Dick, with a knife, whittling. Dot, with a doll. Both wear sprigs of holly.
Dot. Everybody has given us such lovely presents. It couldn't be nicer, could it, Dick?
Dick [sighing]. I think it could be just a little nicer. It would be nicer if we had a lot of brothers and sisters to help us play with the soldiers and the blocks and the dolls and everything. Oh, I wish—I wish that just for this one day I could have a whole roomful of children to play with.
Dot. I'm afraid Jim and Polly aren't having as nice a Christmas as ours.
Dick [shutting his knife]. So am I. I don't think Friendship Alley's a very nice place to have to live.