PHILIP.  Put your arms lower!

CHRISTOPHER.  Yes, you can only catch Aunt Georgiana that way!

[GEORGIANA, happy, pinches CHRISTOPHER’S arm playfully. DICK lowers his arms for a moment, but purposely catches no one.  Then he lifts his arms a little towards GEORGIANA, who cries out and moves, lifting TOOTS on the table. DICK follows the sound of her voice and catches hold of TOOTS’S head.

PHILIP. [Excited.] Musn’t move your hands!

DICK.  Make her kiss me, then.

[GEORGIANA leans over, holding TOOTS to one side, and kisses DICK herself.

PHILIP. [Delighted, calls out.] Guess who!  Guess who!

[GEORGIANA motions to the children not to tell and moves away.

DICK. [Hearing the voice from where he supposes the kiss came, he lakes off the bandage.  He sees TOOTS and is disappointed.] Why—­I thought it was Georgiana!  Toots!  You rascal!

CHRISTOPHER. [Trying to tell.] But Mr. Dick, Mr. Dick!

[TOOTS laughs and claps hands. GEORGIANA gets hold of CHRISTOPHER and holds her hand over his mouth. GEORGIANA and CHRISTOPHER follow DICK to the door Left.

GEORGIANA. [To CHRISTOPHER, to stop his telling.] Sh! [To DICK.] Good-by!

DICK.  Good-by!

TOOTS. [Wanting to tell.] But—­

PHILIP.  Good-by!  Good-by!

GEORGIANA.  Good-by Dick!  Come soon again!

DICK.  To-morrow!

GEORGIANA.  I’ll wait in all day!

CHRISTOPHER.  But Mr. Dick, it was—­

[GEORGIANA hushes him with her hand over his mouth.

GEORGIANA.  Good-by!

DICK.  Good-by!

[He goes out Left.

CHRISTOPHER, PHILIP, AND TOOTS.  Good-by!

[GEORGIANA bursts into tears and hugs TOOTS on top of the table.

CHRISTOPHER.  But it was you, Aunt Georgiana!

GEORGIANA.  Don’t any of you tell on auntie!  You won’t, will you?  Let auntie have her own way.

THE CURTAIN FALLS

ACT II

The drawing-room at the Carleys’.  A handsome room in dark wood, with tapestry on the walls and an old portrait built in over the mantle.  The furniture is gilt, Louis XVI, covered with old crimson brocade.  There is a warmth about the room, a profusion of flowers, some books and magazines.  A piano in the upper left-hand corner, a window with a balcony at Left.  Doors Right and Left. LOUISE and MRS. CARLEY are replacing the furniture, which has been disarranged.  Out on the balcony MOLES is seen, with PHILIP and CHRISTOPHER, arranging an American flag on the balcony balustrade.

LOUISE.  Thank goodness, the luncheon’s over!