[_Standing near house door._] Eloise, how I love you when feeling lifts you out of routine! Do you know, dearest, you are very sensitive in the way you feel feeling? Sometimes I think that to feel feeling is greater than to feel. You’re like the dial. Your sensitiveness is the style--the gnomon--to cast the shadow of the feeling all around you and mark what has been felt. [_They embrace. EDDY and ALICE open the gate._ EDDY Ahem! [_He comes down._] Ahem! We seem to have come ahead of time. ELOISE Oh, Eddy! Alice! [_Moving toward EDDY but not passing the dial._] We are living by sun time now. You haven’t arrived for twenty minutes. EDDY We haven’t arrived for twenty minutes? [_Feeling of himself._] Why do I seem to be here? ALICE [_Approaching dial._] So this is the famous sun-dial? How very interesting it is! ELOISE It’s more than that. ALICE Yes, it’s really beautiful, isn’t it? ELOISE It’s more than that. EDDY Is it? ELOISE It’s a symbol. It means that Ian and I are done with approximations arbitrarily and falsely imposed upon us. EDDY Well, I should think you would be. Who’s been doing that to you? ELOISE Don’t step on the graves, please, Alice. ALICE [_Starting back in horror._] Graves? ELOISE [_Pointing down._] The lies we inherited lie buried there. EDDY Well, I should think that might make quite a graveyard. So the sun-dial is built on lies. ELOISE Indeed it is not! ALICE Does it keep time? IAN It doesn’t “keep” time. It gives it. EDDY [_Comparing with his watch._] Well, it gives it wrong. It’s twenty minutes fast. [_IAN and ELOISE smile at one another in a superior way._ ALICE You couldn’t expect a home-made clock to be perfectly accurate. I think it’s doing very well to come within twenty minutes of the true time. IAN It _is_ true time. ELOISE You think it’s twenty minutes fast because your puny, meticulous little watch is twenty minutes slow. ALICE Why is it, Eddy? [_Comparing watches across the sun-dial._] No, Eddy’s watch is right by mine. IAN And neither of you is right by the truth. ELOISE [_Pityingly._] Don’t you know that you are running by the mean solar time of Philadelphia? EDDY Well, isn’t everybody else running that way? ELOISE Does that make it right? EDDY I get you. You are going to cast off standard time and live by solar time. ELOISE Lies for truth. EDDY But how are you going to connect up with other people? IAN We can allow for their mistakes. ELOISE We will connect with other people in so far as other people are capable of connecting with the truth! EDDY I’m afraid you’ll be awful lonesome sometimes. ALICE But, Eloise, do you mean to say that you are going to insist on being right when other people are wrong? ELOISE I insist upon it. ALICE What a life! EDDY Come now, what difference does it make if we’re wrong if we’re all wrong together? IAN That idea has made a clock of the human mind. [_Enter ANNIE._ ANNIE