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_Bob!_ You get your clothes on!

BOY

I told Mr. Gordon to get my clothes.

SHE

Mr. Gordon--

BOY

Call him Henry--just once--please, Genevieve.

HE (_stiffly_)

I'll get your clothes. Where are they?

BOY

In my room.

HE

What do you want?

BOY

Everything.

SHE (_straightening up_)

Don't be common, Robert.

[_He starts for the door._

HE

No, I'm not going.

SHE

Hen--Mr. Gordon!... Very well. I'll go!

HE

No, you won't go either!

SHE

Please!

BOY

Well, I'll go.

[_Boy moves as though to part the curtains. She screams a stifled little scream and both he and she rush to the curtains to hold them together._

SHE

Oh, Bob, if you won't get out I'll do anything for you.

BOY

Well, I'm cold.

SHE

Mr. Gordon, please go.

HE

I won't go!

SHE

You are very strange, indeed.... I'll go!

[_She nears the door--Stops._

SHE

Never mind.

BOY

Oh, Henry, it's Ethel.

HE

Bob, won't you be a good sport? We'll turn our backs.

BOY

But will everybody else turn their back?

HE

Old man, can't you see how it is? We're--we're going to be engaged--and Ethel is out there--and--and--well--