MISS CHICKEN. You bet I can. You should have----
ALICE (_dictates_). Dear Sir: We are in receipt of your----
MISS CHICKEN. Isn't it funny? Now at my last place, the boss said that word just like you, and because I corrected him he was furious.
MISS CHICKEN. Why, you said receipt instead of recipe.
ALICE. I prefer saying receipt. We shall continue now--(_Dictates_)--letter of the 6th inst. The claim you mentioned in your letter is one that will be hard to tackle.
MISS CHICKEN. Good gracious, I'm stuck. Say, how do you write that word? (_Thinks_) Oh, never mind, I know.
ALICE. You know that many of my clients have had similar cases, but I have had to refuse to take them. Although I would like to take your case I am afraid--(_MISS CHICKENFENCER throws pencil down_)--that I shall have to---- (_To MISS CHICKENFENCER_) Why are you not writing?
MISS CHICKEN. Goodness! you are a regular steam engine. Say, would you mind if I took off my coat and hat. I'm sure we'll become real intimate--(_Powders nose_)--and you sitting there all that time and not telling me that my nose was shiny.
ALICE. Are you finished? I hate to disturb you, but----
MISS CHICKEN. Oh, that's all right. Just a minute until I fix this dip. Say, isn't it awful when you wash your hair. I can't do a thing with mine. Now I have a friend whose hair is so----
ALICE. Really you must excuse me, but would you mind reading the letter as far as you have gone?
MISS CHICKEN. Certainly not. Here goes. (_Reads_) We are in recipe----
MISS CHICKEN. --of your favor of the 6th inst. The clam----
MISS CHICKEN. Oh, of course. (_Giggles_) How stupid of me. (_Reads_) --you mentioned in your letter is one that will be hard to tickle----
MISS CHICKEN. You know that many of my giants----(_Telephone rings_)
ALICE (_through 'phone_). Hello--yes--who?--Miss Chickenfencer?--Why no, there is----
MISS CHICKEN. Hold on there. That's for me. (_Through 'phone_) Hello--Oh, it is you, Bob? Yes, I met him on Wall Street and told him where I was bound for. Go on! What are you trying to do? Oh. Bob stop. You know I did not.... I say I _did not_.
MISS CHICKEN (_waves ALICE to silence_). That will be great. Oh, that's all right; this woman here is a perfect dear. I know she won't mind my taking this afternoon off.