Bess. What does it all mean?
Madge. How perfectly exciting!
Bess. Is it possible that—
Madge. This is our—
Stranger. Future step-mother? Who ever heard of a step-mother being a companion, my dear girls?
Bess. Forgive me. I did not know—
Stranger. The marplot that was to spoil everything when her daughters returned from boarding-school.
[Enter Cash-boy.]
Cash-boy. Sev—en—nine—ty—two!
Salesman. Here, check, take this to the office.