PAULINE
He's a gentlemen from the guardian's office. What's the matter with that? Why don't you keep still an' act sensible. You scared me most to death a while ago!
MRS. JOHN
[As if absent-minded.] That's right. There ain't nothin' to be, done about that now. An' there ain't so much to that, after all, maybe.
PAULINE
All right. An' now c'n I see my child, Mrs. John?
MRS. JOHN
Not to-day. Wait till to-morrow, Pauline.
PAULINE
Why not to-day?