Me happy? I feel like I’ve been elected mayor and can’t find the City Hall. Mary, if any one gave me an unkind look, I’d lie down on the floor and cry. MARY Is there anything wrong, Jack? Is something worrying you? JACK You’re worrying me. MARY I? JACK [_Slowly_]. I can’t get over the feeling that if I don’t make good tonight, you’re going to be the goat. You and Mr. Lee. You’ve done everything for me—the two of you. So far, I haven’t done a thing in return.... I ain’t even thinking about what it would mean to me deep down here—[_He touches his heart._]—if I flop. But then, that’s my business and nobody else’s.... The way things are now, though.... Gee, if I don’t make good with you—and with Lee—I’ll feel like hell. MARY Is _that_ all that’s worrying you? Why, Jack, how silly you are! You’re going to be a sensational success, don’t you realize that? And everybody’s going to be proud of you. JACK [_Slowly_]. Not everybody. I know somebody who won’t be proud of me. MARY [_Intuitively_]. You mean—your people?... I’ve often wondered why you never mentioned your people to me. JACK Well, I—I quarreled with them. MARY Where are they? JACK They’re far away. [_He rises from trunk._] Oh, it’s no use to talk about it. MARY I’m sorry. JACK [_Turns to her_]. The point is, my people had other plans for me.... They—they’d sooner I was a criminal than be on the stage.... MARY Well, I guess a lot of stage people have the same sort of problem you have. JACK My father and mother are different. I’m the only son, and they ... had other ideas about me.... I ran away from home.... They don’t think I’ll ever be any good. MARY Oh, my dear, serious young man, there’s nothing terrible in that. JACK You don’t know my father and mother, Mary. MARY Jack, there’s nothing as selfish as the selfishness of parents. Do you think my people liked the idea of my being on the stage? Mother threatened to have a nervous collapse. Father was frantic. But I did what I wanted, and they both got over it. And now they brag about me to the rest of the family. JACK Well, my father ain’t ever going to brag about me, I can tell you that!