[Moving about the house, getting dinner ready]. From Lawyer Adler we could get anything. The Cantor loves him and he loves the Cantor. They knew each other twenty years ago. What am I talking? It’s thirty years if it’s a day. The way time flies! It seems like yesterday I was a girl. [She goes out to get table cloth.]

Yudelson

I bet you the Cantor don’t even know it’s his birthday. [He sits down at table.]

Sara

[Enters with table cloth]. He never knows. Tell him this year, tell him last year, he don’t remember. But when it comes, and I remember—[She raises Yudelson’s hand as she spreads the cloth.] and his friends remember—oh, he loves it, believe me!

Yudelson

Did I told you what the Gershons are bringing the Cantor?

Sara

The Gershons?