MRS. JOHN
Then you came to father, didn't you? An' you assoomed a grand position an' you had the Iron Cross on the left side o' your chest.
JOHN
[Appears, swinging the rattle and carrying the child on its pillow. He speaks merrily.] That's so, mother. An' I got it yet. If you want to see it, I'll pin it on.
MRS. JOHN
[Still stretched out on the sofa.] An' then you came to me an' you said that I wasn't to be so busy all the time … goin' up an' down, runnin' upstairs an' downstairs … that I was to be a bit more easy-goin'.
JOHN
An' I'm still sayin' that same thing to-day.
MRS. JOHN
An' then you tickled me with your moustache an' kissed me right behind my left ear! An' then …