Hubbard
(Interrupting.) Hush. Don't. I cannot be seen here.
Knox
(Laughing.) You fear the contamination of my company. (The knock is repeated.)
Hubbard
(In alarm, rising, as Knox purses his lips to bid them enter.) Don't let anybody in. I don't want to be seen here—with you. Besides, my presence will not put you in a good light.
Knox
(Also rising, starting toward door.) What I do is always open to the world. I see no one whom I should not permit the world to know I saw.
(Knox starts toward door to open it.) (Hubbabd, looking about him in alarm, flees across stage and into bedroom, closing the door. During all the following scene, Hubbard, from time to time, opens door, and peers out at what is going on.)
Knox