CRAIG’S WIFE
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- Don’t make a show of yourself in front of Mazie. (Mazie comes through the portières, and Mrs. Craig turns to her) Mazie, what is this card here?
Mazie
- Why, it’s the Society card, Mrs. Craig, of the Mutual Benevolent.
Mrs. Craig
- And what is it doing here?
Mazie
- Why, Christine sent it down about an hour ago, with the tailor’s little boy, to know if I’d pay her dues for her.
Mrs. Craig
- And couldn’t you find any place for it but back of that ornament?
Mazie
- Why, I was—
Mrs. Craig
- After all the times I’ve told you never to put anything on that mantelpiece.
Mazie
- Yes, you have told me, Mrs. Craig, but when I came in—
Mrs. Craig
- Then, why do you do it? Must I keep telling you the same thing indefinitely? You know perfectly well I never allow anybody even to dust that mantelpiece but myself. I even bought a special little brush for those ornaments, because I wouldn’t trust them to anybody else. And yet the minute you get my back turned you must use them as a catchall for everything m the house.
Mazie
- Mrs. Harold asked me something when I came in, and—
