Landlady. Well, now. Will you look at that! (Paces up and down.) They come and use your rooms and if you ask what's due you, they turn and run! That's what it is to be a landlady! That's the way they treat you! (Calls.) Here! You don't need to move to-night! (Follows off Left; calling.) What are you running for? I'm not going to eat you! But I want you to know I got to have that money—I got my own bills to pay. (A bell sounds in the Real-play and the Play-play fades instantly.)
Will. God! It seems to me that bell rings all day and all night!
Peggy (rising). Wait, dear. I'll answer it.
(Rises and goes to door. Will continues absorbed in manuscript.)
Landlady (at door of Real-play). Good-evening. I've come for the rent.
Peggy. I'm sorry, but you know I told you it would be a few days yet.
Landlady. How many days do you call a few?
Peggy. Well, a day or two more.
Landlady. That rent's overdue a month. You'll have to get it somehow or quit.
Will (looking up from manuscript). Didn't I tell you you could have it when Dolly gets home?