NIC. You are so odd like that. Hi, hi.

MR. JOUR. I'll….

NIC. I beg of you to excuse me. Hi, hi, hi, hi.

MR. JOUR. Look here, if you laugh again ever so little, I swear I will give you a box on the ears such as you never had before in all your life.

NIC. Well, Sir, I have done. I won't laugh any more.

MR. JOUR. Mind you don't. You must for this afternoon clean….

NIC. Hi, hi.

MR. JOUR. You must clean thoroughly….

NIC. Hi, hi.

MR. JOUR. You must, I say, clean the drawing-room, and….