MR PERKINS He’s gone. MISS PERKINS Oh! Albert! ALBERT Where’s the diamond? MR PERKINS It was in the clock. ALBERT The clock? Where is it? MISS PERKINS Oh! Albert! MR PERKINS ’E’s taken it. ’E’s got the clock. MRS PERKINS Nay, ’e ’asn’t. [_She produces the clock from under her petticoats._ MR PERKINS Well, I’m blowed! MISS PERKINS Oh, Ma! ALBERT What is it? Have you got it? MRS PERKINS I’ve got it right enough. [_She carries the clock to the chimneypiece, opens it, and takes out the diamond._ Will that gentleman come back? ALBERT No, he won’t. MRS PERKINS How d’ y’ know? ALBERT I know. MRS PERKINS Polly, just put that blind back, will yer? I don’t like bein’ too public. MISS PERKINS Oh! I daren’t. ALBERT Now, ma’am, give it to me. MRS PERKINS Eh? ALBERT Let’s have it. Quick. MRS PERKINS Where d’ you come in, Albert? ALBERT Come on. This’ll be the making o’ me. MRS PERKINS O’ me too, I ’ope. But ’adn’t we all better be movin’? MISS PERKINS Where to, Ma? MRS PERKINS Out at the back door. Pack a few things in a bag. ALBERT What are y’ up to? Whad’ y’r mean? MRS PERKINS Now, Albert, there’s no time to make explanations. We’re all in at this, aren’t we? ALBERT Well--in a way. But look here---- MRS PERKINS South America’s the place, isn’t it? D’ y’ know anythin’ o’ the sailin’s! Or ’ad we better cross to France? Better take the midnight train somewhere. ALBERT Has she gone dotty? MRS PERKINS Y’re all asleep. Come on, Polly. A few things in a bag. Now, Pa. Better put this light out p’raps. Is the front door shut? Look at the time-table, Pa. [_She is making for the door when Albert intercepts her._ ALBERT Give me the diamond. I dunno what y’re talkin’ about. MRS PERKINS Nay, I stick to this. ALBERT You can’t! What nonsense! Give it here! This job’s the making o’ me. Let’s have it. MRS PERKINS Nay, it’s mine an’ I’ll stick to it. ALBERT Yours! MRS PERKINS Yes. Dimonds like this belongs to them as can get ’em. Nobody’s honest with things like this. I got it an’ y’ shall all share. But it’s mine. It’s mine. Eh! It’s a beauty. I’d stick to this if all the p’lice in London was after me. ALBERT Y’d do what? MRS PERKINS Ay, an’ Scotland Yard too. ALBERT Bah! _I_’m Scotland Yard. MRS PERKINS What! MISS PERKINS Oh! Albert! ALBERT Didn’t y’ know? Didn’t y’ guess? Didn’t y’ understand? What did y’ take me for? MRS PERKINS D’y mean to say----? ALBERT I mean t’ say it’s ’igh time I was on my way back with this dimond. The gang’s all rounded up by this time. MISS PERKINS The gang? MR PERKINS That feller was one of ’em, then? Where is he? ALBERT He was copped when he left ’ere. Y’ didn’t know y’r ’ouse was surrounded. MRS PERKINS But ’ow did the dimond come ’ere? ’Oo threw it in? ALBERT I did. MISS PERKINS You! MR PERKINS You did! ALBERT I did that. MR PERKINS Why? ALBERT