[_Alone, HENRIETTA’S face betrays her outraged state of mind--disconcerted, resentful, trying to pull herself together. She attains an air of bravely bearing an outrageous thing.--The outer door opens and MABEL enters in great excitement._ MABEL [_Breathless._] Henrietta, I’m so glad you’re here. And alone? [_Looks toward the inner door._] Are you alone, Henrietta? HENRIETTA [_With reproving dignity._] Very much so. MABEL [_Rushing to her._] Henrietta, he’s found it! HENRIETTA [_Aloof._] Who has found what? MABEL Who has found what? Dr. Russell has found my suppressed desire! HENRIETTA That is interesting. MABEL He finished with me today--he got hold of my complex--in the most amazing way! But, oh, Henrietta--it is so terrible! HENRIETTA Do calm yourself, Mabel. Surely there’s no occasion for all this agitation. MABEL But there is! And when you think of the lives that are affected--the readjustments that must be made in order to bring the suppressed hell out of me and save me from the insane asylum--! HENRIETTA The insane asylum! MABEL You said that’s where these complexes brought people! HENRIETTA What did the doctor tell you, Mabel? MABEL Oh, I don’t know how I can tell you--it is so awful--so unbelievable. HENRIETTA I rather have my hand in at hearing the unbelievable. MABEL Henrietta, who would ever have thought it? How can it be true? But the doctor is perfectly certain that I have a suppressed desire for-- [_Looks at HENRIETTA, is unable to continue._ HENRIETTA Oh, go on, Mabel. I’m not unprepared for what you have to say. MABEL Not unprepared? You mean you have suspected it? HENRIETTA From the first. It’s been my theory all along. MABEL But, Henrietta, I didn’t know myself that I had this secret desire for Stephen. HENRIETTA [_Jumps up._] Stephen! MABEL My brother-in-law! My own sister’s husband! HENRIETTA _You_ have a suppressed desire for _Stephen_! MABEL Oh, Henrietta, aren’t these unconscious selves terrible? They seem so unlike _us_! HENRIETTA What insane thing are you driving at? MABEL [_Blubbering._] Henrietta, don’t you use that word to me. I don’t _want_ to go to the insane asylum. HENRIETTA What did Dr. Russell say? MABEL Well, you see--oh, it’s the strangest thing! But you know the voice in my dream that called “Step, Hen!” Dr. Russell found out today that when I was a little girl I had a story-book in words of one syllable and I read the name Stephen wrong. I used to read it S-t-e-p, step, h-e-n, hen. [_Dramatically._] Step Hen is Stephen. [_Enter STEPHEN, his head bent over a time-table._] Stephen is Step Hen! STEVE I? Step Hen? MABEL [_Triumphantly._] S-t-e-p, step, H-e-n, hen, Stephen! HENRIETTA [_Exploding._] Well, what if Stephen is Step Hen? [_Scornfully._] Step Hen! Step Hen! For that ridiculous coincidence-- MABEL