ALICE. Who's that?
MAGGIE. Some one who can't read, I reckon. You hung that card on door, Will?
WILLIE. Aye, it's there. And you wrote it, Maggie.
MAGGIE. I knew better than to trust to you. "Business suspended for the day" it says, and they that can't read it can go on knocking.
HOBSON (off R. upstairs, after another knock). Are you in, Maggie?
VICKEY (terrified). It's father!
(General consternation.)
ALBERT. Oh, Lord!
MAGGIE. What's the matter? Are you afraid of him?
FREDDY. Well, I think, all things considered, and seeing—