Mrs. Pampinelli. [Deprecatingly] Ho! This isn’t the half of them! We sent three automobiles full to the various hospitals. And Mrs. Fell’s car was still taking them when I left. [Jenny shakes her head from side to side in wonderment.] These are just a few that we rescued for Mrs. Ritter. [She moves towards the center-door.] Sort of a little surprise for her, you know, when she gets home. [She stands looking out into the right hallway, expectantly.]
Jenny. They’re certainly ’andsome.
Mrs. Pampinelli. She doesn’t even know that I’ve brought them.
Jenny. Is she comin’ right home, do you know, Mrs. Pampinelli?
Mrs. Pampinelli. [Turning to Jenny] Why, I expect her, yes. I was afraid she’d get here ahead of me. She was waiting for Mr. Ritter. [Coming forward a little] We heard at the hall that he was there, and she thought probably he’d come back and pick her up. He hasn’t come home, has he?
Jenny. No, mam, I haven’t seen anything of him.
Mrs. Pampinelli. [Laughing a little, indulgently, securing a hair-pin, and moving over towards the right] Poor man! His wife’s success has very likely gone to his head. [She glances out the window.]
Jenny. He went out of here about eight o’clock.
Mrs. Pampinelli. [Turning and coming back towards Jenny] Yes, we were so surprised to hear that he was there at all. Because Mrs. Ritter had said that he hadn’t regained consciousness up to the time she left the house.
Jenny. He hadn’t, neither. I thought I ’ad two ’eads on me when I came in and saw him puttin’ on ’is ’at and coat.