Mrs. Mortimer (sitting up): O, good Auntie Temp! What a comfort she is to me; she promised to make those children stop that tune and she has done it. (Sighs.)
Sally (kneeling beside her): But, mother dear, wouldn't you like to hear the fife and drum playing Yankee Doodle if it was played for joy?
Mrs. Mortimer (jumping up): For joy? What can you mean, Sally Caroline?
Sally (rising and throwing arms about Mrs. Mortimer): Don't get excited. It means, dearest mother, that you are to be happy again.
Mrs. Mortimer: O, Sally Caroline, don't deceive me! Do you mean——
Sally (interrupting): Yes, yes, it means that they (leads her slowly toward right exit) are both coming across the fields: one from the west and one from the south, and, even now, they may be in the door-yard. (Mrs. Mortimer hurries.) There, there, dear, do not overtax your strength. Remember, too, they are much changed, and you mustn't give 'way when you meet them. (Exeunt at right.)
Clementina (enters at right, waving fife, followed by George, carrying drum): Golly, wa'n't that fine? Seems lak I cu'd jes' dance mah feet off.
George: Well, ye jes' keep still, ye good-foh-nuthin' niggah gal. Nebah seed sich a crazy gal nowahs, Dere, dey's comin' now, ye better go hide.
(Clementina runs up and stands behind Lincoln's portrait so that only her face is visible. Mrs. Mortimer, Mr. Mortimer and Albert enter at right. Mrs. Mortimer is between the two and their arms are linked. Sally follows closely behind, and Auntie Temp, who is behind the others, goes to George and stands beside him.)
Mrs. Mortimer: It seems too good to be true that I have both my dear ones at home again.