GRANDMA. Don't forget your curtsey, Miss Jones. (SUSAN _curtseys_) You may take the class now, Miss Jones, and give it instruction in the proper treatment of husbands. Inculcate ideas of meekness and gentleness. SUSAN. Oh, I'll inculcate. Have no fear of that. (_Enter_ PAULINE. _She has a telegram which she hands to_ GRANDMA. _Also has the dummy, which she throws on the floor carelessly_.) PAULINE. Here's your husband. GRANDMA. My dear child, you should not handle a husband in that manner. PAULINE. I'll not be handling that husband in any manner very long, mam. I'm going to quit my job. Nothing but scrub, scrub, mop, mop, from morning to night. Look at them young ladies, a drinkin' tea and me doin' the scrub work. I'm tired of being scholar, I am. GRANDMA. (_after reading telegram_) You are tired of being a scholar, are you, PAULINE? PAULINE. Yes'm. I'm sick of it. I've learned this scrubbin' lesson from the cellar up. GRANDMA. So you have, dear, so you have! You do it very well. And I am going to reward you. PAULINE. (_happily_) Reward me, mam? GRANDMA. Yes. I have just received word my newly engaged Professor of Rudimentary Household Science cannot come. How would you like to be a professor, Pauline? PAULINE. Oh, me a professor, mam! Me, who has nothing but rags to my name, a professor? GRANDMA. Yes, Pauline. I have made up my mind. I am going to make you my Professor of Rudiments. Young ladies, this is our new Professor of Rudiments, (_all curtsey_) PAULINE, (_wiping her eyes_) I feel like I ought to make a speech, mam, but I can't, I'm that overcome. I don't feel like I could do justice to the job, mam. GRANDMA. Oh, yes you can, my dear. Now, your duties as Professor of Rudiments will consist in teaching the young ladies scrubbing-- PAULINE. Scrubbin'? GRANDMA. Yes, scrubbing, and mopping, and blacking stoves. PAULINE. Scrubbin' an' moppin' an' blackin' stoves? GRANDMA. Just so. And you will teach by example. The young ladies will study your methods. You will scrub and mop and black stoves, and they will watch you. PAULINE. I'll scrub and mop and--It's mighty like the job of bein' scholar, ain't it, mam? What pay do I get, mam, for all this scrub and mop? GRANDMA. Pay? I am surprised you should ask for pay when I have given you such a position of trust and honor. But there. If you must have pay, you shall have it. I will give you the work you owe me for the tuition you have received. PAULINE, (puzzled) Yes'm. Thank you, mam. Now, now, do you do that work I owe you, or do I do it? GRANDMA. What a question! You do it, of course. You owe it to me, child, don't you? (PAULINE _stands puzzled_) Now, young ladies, I will leave you to your two new Professors, (_exit_ GRANDMA) (PAULINE, _when she is gone, stands puzzled. Turning her head she sees dummy. She grasps it, raises it above her head, ana throws it down angrily_)