COLONEL. ‘As for this little tantrum of locking herself into her room, however, we must have it out with her.’
ALICE. ‘The first thing to-morrow.’
COLONEL. ‘Not a bit of it. The first thing the moment we get home.’
ALICE, now up against a new danger, ‘You forget, dear, that she has gone to bed.’
COLONEL. ‘We’ll soon rout her out of bed.’
ALICE. ‘Robert! You forget that she has locked the door.’
COLONEL. ‘Sulky little darling. I daresay she is crying her eyes out for you already. But if she doesn’t open that door pretty smartly I’ll force it.’
ALICE. ‘You wouldn’t do that?’
COLONEL. ‘Wouldn’t I? Oh yes, I would.’
Thus Alice has another problem to meet when Steve returns from his successful quest for a cab.