DEEGAN. If you think such firms exist by all means cable them. O’HAGAN [_rising_]. We should have a reply in ten hours.... PAUL. What! A message from New York in ten hours? I’m afraid that’s too quick. [_Coughs at DAISY._] DAISY. Nonsense! Why, I got this cablegram yesterday from Philadelphia in four hours. [_Takes it out._] O’HAGAN. May I have a look at that, please? DAISY. Why, sure. Ain’t you never seen a cable? [_Hands it to him._] O’HAGAN [_surprised_]. Mr. Deegan, this is important. DEEGAN. What is it? O’HAGAN. It’s about house property. [_Reads_] “Would lease or buy property on Mount Airy. Cable lowest price. Spalding.” [_Hands back the cable._] Who is Spalding? DAISY. Why, Rupert G. Spalding--one of my tenants. He wants to buy the whole block and make a departmental store--the second largest in the world. PAUL [_drily_]. The Yanks are a go-ahead people. O HAGAN [_perplexed_]. Mr. Deegan, that cablegram puts another complexion on the case. [_Sits down._] DEEGAN. Who is to settle with the local bank? That’s the main point. DAISY. Why, dear, ain’t the local bank got you and me both for security? I guess this slight misunderstanding won’t make no difference in our affections, will it? DEEGAN. It will make all the difference in the world. You have your property on Mount Airy, and I have mine on solid ground. There will be no alliance. PATRICK. That’s sense, by Mozes! MRS. DEEGAN. It takes granda. DAISY. And how about the assignment, granda? DEEGAN. Mr. O’Hagan will answer that question. O’HAGAN. Without marriage the assignment is waste-paper. DAISY. But who huffs at the wedding? Not me. O’HAGAN. My client has changed his mind. PAUL [_loudly_]. Then, bedam, if he has changed his mind he’ll pay for it. Your client promised on his two knees to wed her, and if he goes back on that promise he must take the consequences. [_To DAISY_] I’m going to see fair play, stranger. I saw your fiancé at your feet and heard you accepting him. If there is justice left on earth I’m going to see you get a share of it.... Go now and get your hat and vanity-bag, and we’ll settle with the bank and then see a lawyer.... DAISY. Settle with the bank, did you say? PAUL. Certainly. Settle with the bank. That cablegram in your pocket is good for a million. And your breach of promise case is good for a cowld thousand. DAISY. Paul Twyning, that’s my plan in a capsule. If you back me up in it I’ll make granda Deegan and his ten-cent lawyer sit up and howl. PAUL. Back you up, is it? Paul Twyning has spoken. That is enough.... Go now and get ready for the bank, and hire your cousin Darby to drive us in state. DAISY [_animated_]. I sure will.... Why, I’d depend my life on Paul Twyning right now. PAUL. Bring your vanity-bag and all papers. DAISY. Sure thing. [_Hurries out._]