JOHN (rising). That depends—I am going into that bedroom (pointing R.), and I’m not coming out until that ’bus company gives me five hundred pounds, not if I’ve got to lie there for a month!
PAMELA. Oh, don’t say that, John!
JOHN. I know what I’m doing—I’ll teach them to offer me a balloon—I mean a five-pound nut—no, not nut—note. Now please go and get the bed ready. (Leading PAMELA to door R.)
PAMELA. But John——?
JOHN. Do go—to oblige me—I’m expecting the doctor here at any minute. (Pushes PAMELA off door R.)
(JOHN signals to TULLY, who drags MAMIE out by the hand—they come down a few steps.)
Quick—quick as you can——
(PAMELA re-enters. TULLY and MAMIE get behind curtains again quickly.)
PAMELA. But, John, it may be weeks and weeks before these people pay out the money——