LOIS: (_Sarcastically_) How interesting! JULIE: ’Member when we used to play “soapo”? LOIS: Yes--and ten years old. I’m really quite surprised that you don’t play it still. JULIE: I do. I’m going to in a minute. LOIS: Silly game. JULIE: (_Warmly_) No, it isn’t. It’s good for the nerves. I’ll bet you’ve forgotten how to play it. LOIS: (_Defiantly_) No, I haven’t. You--you get the tub all full of soapsuds and then you get up on the edge and slide down. JULIE: (_Shaking her head scornfully_) Huh! That’s only part of it. You’ve got to slide down without touching your hand or feet-- LOIS:(_Impatiently_) Oh, Lord! What do I care? I wish we’d either stop coming here in the summer or else get a house with two bath-tubs. JULIE: You can buy yourself a little tin one, or use the hose---- LOIS: Oh, shut up! JULIE: (_Irrelevantly_) Leave the towel. LOIS: What? JULIE: Leave the towel when you go. LOIS: This towel? JULIE: (_Sweetly_) Yes, I forgot my towel. LOIS: (_Looking around for the first time_) Why, you idiot! You haven’t even a kimono. JULIE: (_Also looking around_) Why, so I haven’t. LOIS: (_Suspicion growing on her_) How did you get here? JULIE: (_Laughing_) I guess I--I guess I whisked here. You know--a white form whisking down the stairs and-- LOIS: (_Scandalized_) Why, you little wretch. Haven’t you any pride or self-respect? JULIE: Lots of both. I think that proves it. I looked very well. I really am rather cute in my natural state. LOIS: Well, you-- JULIE: (_Thinking aloud_) I wish people didn’t wear any clothes. I guess I ought to have been a pagan or a native or something. LOIS: You’re a-- JULIE: I dreamt last night that one Sunday in church a small boy brought in a magnet that attracted cloth. He attracted the clothes right off of everybody; put them in an awful state; people were crying and shrieking and carrying on as if they’d just discovered their skins for the first time. Only _I_ didn’t care. So I just laughed. I had to pass the collection plate because nobody else would. LOIS: (_Who has turned a deaf ear to this speech_) Do you mean to tell me that if I hadn’t come you’d have run back to your room--un--unclothed? JULIE: _Au naturel_ is so much nicer. LOIS: Suppose there had been some one in the living-room. JULIE: There never has been yet. LOIS: Yet! Good grief! How long-- JULIE: Besides, I usually have a towel. LOIS: (_Completely overcome_) Golly! You ought to be spanked. I hope you get caught. I hope there’s a dozen ministers in the living-room when you come out--and their wives, and their daughters. JULIE: There wouldn’t be room for them in the living-room, answered Clean Kate of the Laundry District. LOIS: All right. You’ve made your own--bath-tub; you can lie in it. (_LOIS starts determinedly for the door._) JULIE: (_In alarm_) Hey! Hey! I don’t care about the k’mono, but I want the towel. I can’t dry myself on a piece of soap and a wet wash-rag.