"They like to see you quarrelling with your husband and getting drunk?"
"They laugh," he said.
"They like to hear you, as an Ugly Sister in Cinderella, singing 'Father's on the booze again; mother's off her chump'?"
"They laugh," he said.
"They like to see you as the wife of Ali Baba, finding pawntickets in your husband's pockets and charging him with spending his money on flappers?"
"They laugh," he said.
"They like to see you, as The Widow Twankay, visit a race meeting and get welshed and have your clothes torn off?"
"They laugh," he said.
"They like to see you, as Dick Whittington's mother, telling the cat that, if he must eat onions, at any rate he can refrain from kissing her?"
"They laugh," he said.