J.—Now I'm Susan!
(Janet arranges the cups and saucers close together at one side of the table.)
R.—You stupid girl, that is not how they ought to be arranged. Susan always put them quite apart from each other, and the tea-pot at one end of the table like this.
J.—Do let me have the tea-pot in front of me.
R.—Certainly not, it must be in front of me.
J.—Mammy, don't you think I ought to have the tea-pot in front of me? because I am a girl.
R.—No, I'll have it in front of me, because I am a boy.
M.—Suppose you put it in the middle of the table where you can both reach it. I shall sit at the side like a guest, and you can take turns.
R.—That will be delightful. We will put the tea-pot here, then.
J.—Where is the tea-pot?