Julie: I dreamt last night that one Sunday in church a small
boy brought in a magnet that attracted cloth. He attracted
the clothes right off of everybody; put them in an awful
state; people were crying and shrieking and carrying on as
if they'd just discovered their skins for the first time. Only I
didn't care. So I just laughed. I had to pass the collection
plate because nobody else would.
lois: (Who has turned a deaf ear to this speech) Do you
mean to tell me that if I hadn't come you'd have run back
to your room—un—unclothed?
Julie: Au naturel is so much nicer.
lois: Suppose there had been some one in the living- room.
Julie: There never has been yet.
lois: Yet! Good grief! How long——
Julie: Besides, I usually have a towel.
lois: (Completely overcome) Golly! You ought to be
spanked. I hope you get caught. I hope there's a dozen
min- isters in the living-room when you come out—and
their wives and their daughters.
Julie: There wouldn't be room for them in the living- room,
answered Clean Kate of the Laundry District.
lois: All right. You've made your own—bath-tub; you can
lie in it.
(Lois starts determinedly for the door.)
HYLAND
