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quiveringly, tearful in its gladness._]
JACK
Mama! Mama! [_He kisses her._]
SARA
Jakie, Jakie! My baby! My darling!
JACK
[_Steps back—leads her to chair_]. My, my, mama! Gee, it’s good to see
you, Ma. You look wonderful.
SARA
[_Sinks down in chair_]. That I should live to see my Jakie again!...
When did you come?
JACK
I just got off the train.
SARA
And the first thing you came to your mama!
JACK
Who else?
SARA
You’ll stay and have supper?... Hello, Jakie, how are you!
JACK
Say, Mama, did you miss me?
SARA
Such a question to ask your mama!
JACK
How is papa?
SARA
[_Sighs_]. Oh, he will be glad to see you.
JACK
How does he feel?
SARA
Healthy, thank God. Jakie, you’ll live here with us, no?
JACK
I’d love to, Ma, but I can’t. I wired for a room at the hotel. I have
to see some people uptown on business.
SARA
[_Rises_]. Don’t be foolish. For business you can go uptown, and for
eating you can come here and eat your mama’s cooking, and here you can
sleep. I got your old bed just the way it was when you left and
all your things is in your room the way you used to want them. [_As
she is saying this,_ JACK _is patting her cheeks with his hand and
interrupting her gaily, tenderly with “Yeh, yeh, Mama, yeh, yeh!”_ SARA
_moves to his suitcase._]
JACK
Here, what are you doing?
SARA
I want to put this in your room.
JACK
Don’t make yourself a baggage man, Mama.
SARA
I want to put everything away so you’ll know where they are.
JACK
If you put them away, Mama, I won’t know where anything is.
SARA
[_Quaintly_]. Well, I want to see what you got.
JACK
All right. I’ll open the bag for you. You see how hard it is to open,
Ma? It’s an expensive bag. That’s genuine pigskin. Ah, there we are.
[_Brings out suit of pajamas._] See that? That’s pajamas. Two parts. In
the winter you can wear them both. [_Takes out dressing gown._] That’s
a wrapper.
SARA
Wrapper?
JACK
Yeh, a wrapper for a gentleman.
SARA
[_Takes out leather case_]. Oh, what a big pocketbook!
JACK
That’s a picture.
SARA
A picture from you?
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