Helen
Stupid! Sit down. [Indicates a chair close to hers. He takes it cautiously.] We'll have a little fun with them in a minute.
[She is busy now making tea.
Theodore
[to Lucy and the Judge apart]
You may be right, Uncle Everett, but upon my word it is the strangest courtship I ever witnessed.
Lucy
They ought to be spanked.
Judge
Don't worry, old Mother Nature will attend to that.