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_Bob!_ You get your clothes on!
BOY
I told Mr. Gordon to get my clothes.
SHE
Mr. Gordon--
BOY
Call him Henry--just once--please, Genevieve.
HE (_stiffly_)
I'll get your clothes. Where are they?
BOY
In my room.
HE
What do you want?
BOY
Everything.
SHE (_straightening up_)
Don't be common, Robert.
[_He starts for the door._
HE
No, I'm not going.
SHE
Hen--Mr. Gordon!... Very well. I'll go!
HE
No, you won't go either!
SHE
Please!
BOY
Well, I'll go.
[_Boy moves as though to part the curtains. She screams a stifled little scream and both he and she rush to the curtains to hold them together._
SHE
Oh, Bob, if you won't get out I'll do anything for you.
BOY
Well, I'm cold.
SHE
Mr. Gordon, please go.
HE
I won't go!
SHE
You are very strange, indeed.... I'll go!
[_She nears the door--Stops._
SHE
Never mind.
BOY
Oh, Henry, it's Ethel.
HE
Bob, won't you be a good sport? We'll turn our backs.
BOY
But will everybody else turn their back?
HE
Old man, can't you see how it is? We're--we're going to be engaged--and Ethel is out there--and--and--well--
