BRUNO
If that there theayter feller comes, he c'n engage me right on the spot.
MRS. JOHN
[Violently.] Don' talk rot!
BRUNO
[Grinning at PAULINE.] Maybe you don' believe it, Miss, but I went an' took the clown's hoss at Schumann's circus aroun' the ring three times. Them's the kind o' things I does. An' is I goin' to be scared?
PAULINE
[Seeming to notice for the first time the fantastic strangeness of the place in which she finds herself. Frightened and genuinely perturbed.] Mother o' God, what kind o' place is this?
MRS. JOHN
Whoever c'n that be?