Amanda. Mental excitement makes anybody warm. Shall I go and tell the girls not to bring the shawl?
Miss Steele. Sit still where you are.
[A short, silent pause.]
Enter Mary Ann and Georgie, triumphantly displaying a white shawl.
Mary Ann. There, ma'am. We had to turn over everything in your drawers.
Miss Steele. How very thoughtless of you! I must go and see whether you have done any harm.
[She rises in dismay, drops stockings and balls of yarn, and leaves the room. Mary Ann screams with laughter, and drops on the floor.]
Mary Ann. Oh, me darlints! me childer! It makes me that wake. But the fun! We tossed her drawers all to pieces. There isn't one handkercher lift upon anither. And the gloves and fans and letthers is scathered about.
Laura. Oh, girls, what a pity! How could you do that?
Georgiana. Why, the thawl wathn't in the upper drawer at all. It wath in the lower; and Mollie jutht puthed her handth under everything, and thcattered them tho.