8
STREET SCENE
[Act I
Mrs. Jones
Don’t tell me! If you was to know what I went t’roo with my Vincent. Half the time, he used to have convulsions.
[Willie Maurrant, a disorderly boy of twelve, appears at the left, on roller skates. He stops at the left of the stoop and takes hold of the railing with both hands.]
Willie
[Raising his head and bawling]: Hey, ma!
Mrs. Jones
[Disapprovingly]: If you want your mother, why don’t you go upstairs, instead o’ yellin’ like that?
Willie
[Without paying the slightest attention to her, bawls louder]: Hey, ma!
Mrs. Maurrant
[Appearing at the one of the lighted first-floor windows]: What do you want, Willie?
[She is a fair woman of forty, who looks her age, but is by no means unattractive.]
Willie
Gimme a dime, will ya? I wanna git a cone.
