Crier. [Without, going by with rattle of wand on wall.] Lights, lights, lights! People, people, people! Light your lanterns all!
Tikipu enters from street.
Tiki. Mee-Mee! Has every one gone out?
Mee. Sh! not gone yet!
[Points.
Tiki. But they are all going? Mrs. Back-of-the-House too?
Mee. She say.
Tiki. Oh, look here, Mee-Mee! When they’ve gone, you come and clean up for me, and I’ll—well, I’ll show you—something I’m doing.
Enter from house Mr. and Mrs. Olangtsi.
Mrs. O. Oh, so you are back, are you? When is the chair coming?