FRANKEL [_bitterly_]: I'll control 'em all right! I'll show 'em who's their master!
[_A man's head with shaggy hair and ragged whiskers is thrust in at the factory door. This is_ POLENSKI.]
POLENSKI [_ferociously_]: Are you goin' to come out here like a man?
FRANKEL: You _bet_ I'm comin' out there, Polenski! I'll show you who's the man here! You Hunnyacks try to browbeat me!
[_As he goes out, babbling fiercely, the howls of a Roman mob are heard greeting him._]
CARTER: I don't feel no sympathy with him.
[_A more distant outbreak of the mob is heard, brief but fierce, and just a moment before it ceases_ MIFFLIN _enters, beaming. He is dressed as usual, with his umbrella and the same old magazines and newspapers under his arm._]
MIFFLIN: Everything is lovely! How do you do, Miss Gorodna! Carter, old fellow! It's a great morning, a great morning! Mr. Gibson drove me down in his car. It's wonderful to feel the inspiration it's going to be for an ex-capitalist to see this place and its harmony. My phrase for it is "harmonized industry." It will mark an epoch for him.
[GIBSON _comes in._ MIFFLIN _greets him._]
MIFFLIN: Ah, Mr. Gibson! You'll see a difference! You'll see a difference!
GIBSON: Yes, I do. Good morning, Miss Gorodna!
NORA [_just barely looking round_]: Good morning, Mr. Gibson.
MIFFLIN: I was just saying what an inspiration it's going to be for you to see what we're doing down here. [_Pats_ CARTER'S _shoulder._] These noble fellows are teaching us intellectuals a lesson. I keep going among them; what they're doing here keeps flowing into me. You'll get it, Mr. Gibson. You'll get it, too!
[_Beamingly he goes out into the factory._]
CARTER [_cordially_]: Take a chair, Mr. Gibson. Make yourself right at home!
[_He makes a grave tour of inspection of the place, his expression noncommittal; goes about casually without making a point of it; he writes his initials in the dust on a filing case. He turns and looks at_ NORA _thoughtfully; she has not seemed to notice him._]
NORA [_not looking up_]: Do I think you will what?
GIBSON: That I'll get what Mifflin meant? That it will be an inspiration to me to see this meeting?
NORA: I don't know what will be an inspiration to you.
GIBSON: I know one thing that is--a brave woman!