Purim! Is to-day Purim?
[Gives her the tea-tray back. Kathleen, to take it, drops her nose and forgets to pick it up.]
DAVID
But Purim is a merry time, Kathleen, like your Carnival. Haven't you read the book of Esther—how the Jews of Persia escaped massacre?
KATHLEEN
That's what the misthress is so miserable about. Ye don't keep the Carnival. There's noses for both of ye in the kitchen—didn't I go with her to Hester Street to buy 'em?—but ye don't be axin' for 'em. And to see your noses layin' around so solemn and neglected, faith, it nearly makes me chry meself.
MENDEL [Bitterly to himself]
Who can remember about Purim in America?
DAVID [Half-smiling]
Poor granny, tell her to come in and I'll play her Purim jig.