MAMIE (_round sharply to TULLY_). Certainly not!
You know as well as I do that that necklace does _not_ belong to Mrs. Ayers. Please ask her to return it to me.
TULLY (_crosses to PAMELA_). Mrs. Ayers, will you please return the necklace to Mrs.--er--Mrs. wife?
PAMELA. I shall do nothing in the matter until I've seen John.
TULLY (_crosses to MAMIE_). She will do nothing in the matter----
MAMIE (_pushing TULLY up stage_). Out of my way!
(_TULLY watching his opportunity, works up to window, picks up clothes and cushions and steals out by window R._)
(_MAMIE crosses to PAMELA._) Now, Mrs. Ayers, that necklace was lent to me and its real owner is waiting at the door of your flat. If I don't take it back to him at once you'll have the police on your track. Am I to take it back or not?
PAMELA (_hands necklace to MAMIE_) Oh, very well, take it to him. (_Crosses to writing-desk up L._) I don't want a vulgar scene over a paltry thirty-shilling necklace. (_Sits._)
MAMIE. Thirty shillings! That shows how much _you_ know, and also that this necklace cannot possibly be _your_ property--I'm sorry you made such a mistake. (_Going up to window R._) Thirty shillings--that's really good--I must tell the Rajah that! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
(_Exit MAMIE window R., laughing loudly._)
PAMELA (_rushes to door L., opens it_). John! John!
(_AUNT HANNAH screams. PAMELA closes door, rushes across to door R. URSULA enters door R. holding poker in hand and looking very formidable, she advances in a threatening manner._)
(_PAMELA starts with a little cry at sight of URSULA and backs up to window R. trembling with fear._)
URSULA. What are you doing 'ere? What are you doing 'ere?
PAMELA. I beg your pardon, I was looking for my husband.
URSULA. Well, he's not 'ere. He's not 'ere! (_Loudly._)
(_Exit window R. calling:_ "John! John!")
URSULA. It's all right. You can come in now, little man. All gone!
JOHN (_entering_). Thank you, Ursula, thank you! (_JOHN is carrying a bodice._)
(_URSULA gives JOHN the glad eye and exits with a little backward kick of the leg. JOHN crosses to door L., opens it and throws bodice into bedroom._)
Eh? What's that, speak up, I can't hear. (_Crossing to door R._)
(_AUNT HANNAH enters, JOHN turns and bursts into laughter, mistaking AUNT HANNAH for TULLY in disguise._)