MRS. JOHN
Wait a minute, Miss! I gotta unlock the door first.
MRS. JOHN acts, as though she were about to conduct PAULINE to the door.
Before the two women reach the passage, BRUNO MECHELKE enters with slow and suspicious demeanour by the door at the left and remains standing in the room. BRUNO is short rather than tall, but with a powerful bull's neck and athletic shoulders. His forehead is low and receding, his close-clipped hair like a brush, his skull round and small. His face is brutal and his left nostril has been ripped open sometime and imperfectly healed. The fellow is about nineteen years old. He bends forward, and his great, lumpish hands are joined to muscular arms. The pupils of his eyes are small, black and piercing. He is trying to repair a rat trap.
BRUNO whistles to his sister as he would to a dog.
MRS. JOHN
I'm comin' now, Bruno! What d'you want?
BRUNO
[Apparently absorbed by the trap.] Thought I was goin' to put up traps here.