Five dollars! No, thanks. If I had that much money I'd lose it maybe. Give me two bits and call it square. [_Nathaniel hands him a quarter._ Thanks.... Well... good-bye.... I'm glad your back wasn't broke. JONATHAN Good-bye, Hank. HANK Good-bye, Mister.... I'll see you next year maybe, when it's warm.--Say, kid, I'd like to see that _Zenobia_ show again:--"Hail, noble duke," "All's well, Irene." "Not very well, noble duke." [_He goes out, chuckling to himself._ _Aunt Letitia enters. As usual she has something to keep her hands busy. She seats herself comfortably in a chair that custom has evidently made her very own. In her work she shows the effect of time upon her eyes and she may feel a tiny draught that causes her to close the doors behind her and draw her scarf a bit more closely about her. Never has Aunt Letitia seemed more successfully the poor relation._ LETITIA I thought you were out with John. NATHANIEL No. [_Jonathan is looking at the manuscript._ LETITIA (_to Jonathan_) How do you feel, dear? JONATHAN Fine;... I think I'll go in the house and read this. (_To Nathaniel_) I'm glad it isn't true. [_He goes out._ NATHANIEL It's the story of his delirium. I thought it would interest him--and relieve him. LETITIA Has John gone? NATHANIEL Only for a stroll--the doctor's orders. LETITIA Well? NATHANIEL Well? LETITIA Sit down. NATHANIEL In John's chair? LETITIA If you wish. NATHANIEL John's chair! The throne of the head of the family! (_He sits in John's chair_) Well? LETITIA Nathaniel dear, you are making John very unhappy. NATHANIEL And John has made me very unhappy, dearest Aunt Letty. LETITIA The feeling at the dinner table was almost unbearable tonight. There we sat strained and silent. NATHANIEL I am sorry. I try to avoid meals with John as much as possible. LETITIA You've been here eight weeks and John and I know nothing of you. For me it is enough that you are here; but John is the head of the family and he feels that you ought to treat him with greater deference. NATHANIEL It is revolting to me to have a tsar in the family. LETITIA Your father and your father's father and grandfather were rulers of the Clay family. NATHANIEL I don't question that. LETITIA You can't change John. NATHANIEL I don't want to change John. LETITIA Then why not tell him something about yourself? NATHANIEL It is none of John's affairs how or why I live. It is none of his affair how or why or when I shall marry Mlle. Perrault. LETITIA Perhaps not. NATHANIEL