MILLY. Audrie, you are queer to-night. You’ll be ill again.

AUDR. Yes, duckie, I hope so.

MILLY. What’s the matter with you?

AUDR. Life’s the matter with me, I think. I’ve got it badly, and I don’t know how to cure myself.

MILLY. I wish you wouldn’t talk nonsense, and run about on silly errands in the dark.

AUDR. I won’t for long. When my head is tightly bandaged in a white cloth, I can’t talk any more nonsense, can I? And when my feet are comfortably tucked up in my final night-gown I can’t run after stone saints in the dark, can I?

MILLY. Oh, you give me the creeps. I can’t imagine why you wanted to come out to-night.

AUDR. To decorate the church.

MILLY. Don’t you think it’s decorated enough?

AUDR. (looking). No, it wants a few more touches. I must just titivate a cherub’s nose, or hang a garland on an apostle’s toe, just to show my deep, deep devotion——