Oh, Mr. Joyce, I’ve come to see your sun-clock again. Mr. Stubbs says _he’ll_ not be run from Philadelphia. He says if you have got the time straight from the sun--[_Sees that the sun-dial is gone._] Oh, do you take it in at night? IAN The sun-dial lies buried there. MRS. STUBBS You’ve _buried_ the sun-clock? And dug up all the _wrong_ clocks? [_With a withering glance at ELOISE._] That’s how a smart man’s appreciated! What did you bury it for, Mr. Joyce? [_EDDY gives the cuckoo clock to ALICE._ IAN It cannot live in this world where no one wants truth or feeling about truth. This is a world for clocks. MRS. STUBBS Well, _I_ want truth! And so does Johnnie Stubbs! If you’ll excuse my saying so, Mr. Joyce, after you’ve made a thing that’s right you oughtn’t to bury it, even if there is nobody to want it. And now that _I_ want it--[_MRS. STUBBS takes the spade and begins to dig up the sun-dial. IAN cannot resist this and helps her. He lifts the sun-dial, she brushes it off and he fits it to its place on the pedestal._] Now there it is, Mr. Joyce, and as good as if it had never seen the grave. [_She looks at the setting sun._] And there’s time for it to make its shadow before this sun has gone. IAN The simple mind has beauty. ELOISE [_Coming to him._] I want to be simpler. MRS. STUBBS Now what time would you say it was, Mr. Joyce? IAN I would say it was twenty minutes of seven, Mrs. Stubbs. MRS. STUBBS [_Looking at EDDY and ALICE and the cuckoo clock._] And _they_ would say it was twenty minutes past six! Well, _I_ say: let them that want sun time have sun time and them that want tick time have tick time. [_ANNIE appears at the door._ ANNIE [_In a flat voice._] It’s dinner time! (CURTAIN) * * * * * Transcriber’s Notes: The one illustration has been moved to a paragraph break near where it is mentioned. Punctuation has been made consistent. Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected. The following change was made: p. 255: STEVE changed to HENRIETTA (Henrietta? HENRIETTA Why,) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Plays, by Susan Glaspell