Mary exits at back R.

N. B.—After Dunn closes screen Niobe removes white wig, makes up, etc., for re-appearance in the flesh.

Tomp. Confound your modern appliances! They managed to get along without them in Attica! Bah! We might all have been killed!

Tompkins crosses L. corner; lights going up.

Dunn. (C.) Not this time. The pressure isn’t on.

Sill. How do you know that?

Dunn. (following Tompkins, crosses to window L.) Because the lights in the street are not going yet.

Helen, Beatrice, Corney, Hattie and Innings, and Carrie advance from hallway C.

Corn. (putting on gloves) Sorry Phil, that you can’t come along with us. (Corney down L. C.)