JOHN. Don’t make a scene! Don’t make a scene!
(Going up to window. AUNT HANNAH enters and seeing TULLY in pyjamas she gives a scream and goes off door L. quickly. JOHN and TULLY both start and look round the room.)
JOHN (to TULLY). Don’t do it! Don’t do it!
TULLY. I distinctly heard a woman’s voice.
JOHN (approaches window gingerly). ’Sh! Don’t make a noise. I’m listening for the flower-pots to fall.
TULLY. What will happen if Mr. Trippett and the doctor come in and find us gone?
JOHN. They dare not enter while the two women are arguing, perhaps fighting. I’m only thinking what a little cat Mamie was to come out just when everything was going so splendidly.
TULLY. Whatever induced you to run after a girl like that?
JOHN. Is there anybody in this flat?