THE GIRL FROM THE KITCHEN—I'm the sixth assistant helper of the cook.
THE TAILOR—The sixth?
THE GIRL FROM THE KITCHEN—Yes, I clean the butter plates.
THE TAILOR—And that's all you do? Just clean butter plates? How terrible!
THE GIRL FROM THE KITCHEN—But it isn't. The cook says I'm the best butter dish cleaner in the world. I like butter. I like to touch it. There's no color in the world so beautiful. It's like that bit of cloth you have in your hands.
THE TAILOR—You see the cloth?
THE GIRL FROM THE KITCHEN—Of course I see it. Why, it's right there in your hands. And it's yellow like the butter.
THE TAILOR—Or gold. (He reaches into the bag again.) And what's this? (He holds his right hand high above his head.)
THE GIRL FROM THE KITCHEN—Why, it's a yellow rope.
THE TAILOR—Yes, that's it, a rope. I'm going to give you the other piece of cloth now, and later the rope, too. You must guard it as carefully, as carefully as you would watch one of your butter dishes. Do you understand?