CULLINGHAM and MRS. TILLMAN enter._
MRS. TILLMAN. [_With her arms full of roses._] Thomas will take them
down.
PETER. No, I'd like to. Aren't they bully?
[_He takes them._
MRS. CULLINGHAM. [_To MRS. TILLMAN._] Good-by, and thank you again. I
know you must want to go up to Jinny.
MRS. TILLMAN. Yes, she may need me to help her a little. Good-by.
Good-by, Peter.
PETER. Good-by, ma'm.
[_MRS. TILLMAN goes out Right._
MRS. CULLINGHAM. Why, Susie, how do you do?
SUSIE. [_Glides out of the chair and stands before it._] How do you do?
[_Embarrassed._
MRS. CULLINGHAM. You're a good little girl, I hope?
SUSIE. I don't! I hate good little girls!
MRS. CULLINGHAM. O my!
[_She goes out, laughing, Left._
[_PETER, coming to SUSIE, catches her in his arms and kisses her, much
against her will._
SUSIE. [_Furious._] Oh, you horrid, nasty thing, you! [_She strikes at
him; he runs; she chases him from one side of the room to the other,
around a sofa and table, and out Left, screaming as she chases him._] I
hate you! I hate you!
[_MAGGIE enters Right.
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