[She hangs up the receiver.
BAUER. And I ain't goin' this afternoon—nowhere.
MRS. BAUER. It's Mrs. McAllister. Somethin's wrong with her refrigerator—the water won't run off, she says.
BAUER. They can clean out their own drain-pipes.
MRS. BAUER. You go to work and get your mind off this here business.
BAUER. [Staring straight ahead of him.] I ain't goin' 'round among the people in this house ... to have them lookin' at me ... disgraced like this.
MRS. BAUER. You want to hold up your head and act as if nothin's happened.
BAUER. Nobody spoke to me at the dumb-waiter when I took off the garbage and paper this morning. Mrs. Mohler always says something pleasant.
MRS. BAUER. You just think that because you're all upset. [The telephone rings; she goes to it and listens.] Yes, ma'am, I'll see. Fritz, have you any fine wire? Mrs. McAllister thinks she might try and fix the drain with it—till you come up.
BAUER. I got no wire.