Yes to question number one; no to question number two.
THE OTHER WIVES
[Together] Which is which?... Do we come back?... What can he mean?... Which question is number one?... He's going to put her out!
PAULA
[Authoritatively] Silence! Let me do the talking. [To HELIOGABALUS, bravely but a bit uneasily] What do you mean ... darling?
HELIOGABALUS
Simply this, molasses jar. You all come back—but not together.
THE OTHER WIVES
[In a babble, as before. They don't quite know whether to hail the news, or to protest] Oh, we come back!... But what does that mean?... I don't understand it at all.... Do you mean—?