Hel. Hattie! We’ll leave you behind if you’re not good.
Helen exits C. and R. up stairs.
Hat. (calling after her) You’d send me to bed without my supper too, if you could, only I have had it.
Car. (with pretended severity) Don’t be so forward, Hattie!
Carrie exits C. and R. up stairs; Corney and Beatrice enter from R. D., spooning.
Corn. Oh yes, Bea, if I asked you very sweetly, wouldn’t you? (Hattie gets in front of them.)
Bea. Here is Hattie?
Hat. (laughing with hands behind her) Disturbed again, eh? Poor dears. Can’t you get left to yourselves anywhere?
Corn. Yes, here—if you leave us. Get out.
Corney goes for Hattie C.; Beatrice drops down R. to couch and sits.