Oh, I’m awfully glad you got back all right, Miss White. I jumped into a taxi as soon as that brute of a policeman came, and then I met all the rest of the crowd at the studio and everybody said, “Where’s Miss White?” So I came right up here to find out if you’d got home. MAXWELL For God’s sake, will somebody tell me what’s happened? LIONEL (_sitting on the pianola bench_) Why, you see-- HELEN Be still. You see, Max, we were all at the Mortons’ studio, and Adrian Wolfe made a speech about those nasty striking miners in California or wherever it is that everybody is wearing mourning for and parading and all that and this--and Mr. Morris said: “Let’s walk up to Union Square and hold an open air meeting to protest.” So we went up there and I made a speech and there was a crowd and I saw a policeman there, but I thought it would be all right, and then Mr. Morris made a speech and he said something about trampling on a bloodstained flag, and the policeman told him to stop, and he called the policeman a myrmidon, and some more policemen came and broke up the meeting, and he ran away and wouldn’t help me; and I ran down into the subway, and I don’t see how he dares show his face in here! MAXWELL I’ll talk to him presently, but quiet down a little. You’d better go in your room and fix up your hair. (HELEN _rises to go out. She stops in the doorway and turns to_ MAXWELL.) HELEN I won’t go to that nasty Amaranth this summer, Maxwell. MAXWELL No, you won’t go to Amaranth. HELEN Then will you get an automobile? MAXWELL No, I won’t get an automobile. HELEN Then what-- MAXWELL I am going to take that two thousand dollars and buy, with the assistance of the building and loan association, a small house in a city called Joplin, in the State of Missouri. It will not be a large house, but I think that you will not find the time hanging heavy on your hands. My brother has a wholesale grocery there, and I dare say he will take me into the business, especially as I have a little money to invest. And I’ll come home to luncheon every day. Missouri is a fertile State. My brother has six children. LIONEL But, Miss White--Mr. Johnson! (HELEN _goes down the hall to her room_. MAXWELL _walks up to_ LIONEL.) MAXWELL My wife’s name is not Miss White but Mrs. Johnson--Mrs. Maxwell Johnson, of Joplin, Missouri. Get that? Do you know what keeps me from dropping you down the elevator shaft? LIONEL What--what do you mean? MAXWELL