SUSAN. Ha! Ha! Now seize and bind and gag that woman, (_points to_ GRANDMA. _The girls rush at_ GRANDMA, _who skips backward_) SUSAN, (_front, rubbing her hands with joy_) pirates! My faithful band of man-haters, (_to audience_) You men, your turn is next! A BOY'S VOICE. (_off stage_) OO-oo! (KATE, _who it about to bind_ GRANDMA, _stops and listens_.) KATE That's John! SECOND BOY'S VOICE. (_off stage) Oo-oo! Oo-oo!_) GRACE. (_listening_) That's--that's Arthur! SEVERAL BOY'S VOICES. Oo-oo! Oo-Oo! Oo-oo! EDITH, IDA and Mat. That's Sam! That's George! That's Henry! (_all crowd to door and look out_) KATE. (_eagerly_) Oh, girls! It's the boys, they want us to come out! Where's my hat? (_All rush in a crowd to sofa and begin digging wildly into wraps and hats, putting them on as hastily as possible_) SUSAN. Girls! Pirates! Stop! The revolution! Remember your cause! KATE. (_pinning on her hat_) Revolution! I haven't time for revolutions, don't you hear the boys calling us? SUSAN. Stop! Are you not women? GRACE. (_as all come forward_) Women? Pirates? Why no, we are just the I. I. Club. Just girls. Just sweet girls! VOICES, (_off stage_) Oo-oo! GIRLS. Oo-oo! Oo-oo! Oo-oo! (_they rush out_) (SUSAN _slowly picks up umbrella and hand bag, and moves to door_. GRANDMA _takes up her knitting._ PAULINE _picks up her mop, and looks lovingly at dummy_.) PAULINE. I'm ashamed of you, sir. Why didn't you-oo at me when all them boys was oo-ooing? you had oo-ooed at me I would have oo-ooed back. GRANDMA. (_with interest_) Did he speak to you, Pauline? PAULINE. No, mam. He's an Ideal Husband, and Ideal Husbands don't talk back, mam. (CURTAIN) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Revolt, by Ellis Parker Butler