Yardsley. It doesn't, unless you want to bore a hole in the floor,and let it flow into the billiard-room below. We've just got tohustle that scene along, so that the climax will be reached beforethe tub overflows.

Barlow. Perhaps we'd better test the skinnyg now. Maybe my tub isn'tlarge enough for the scene. It would be awkward if the heroine hadto seize a dipper and bail the fountain out right in the middle of animpassioned rebuke to Hartley.

Perkins. All right--go ahead. Test it. Test anything. I'll supplythe Croton pipes.

Yardsley. None of you fellows happen to have a length of hose withyou, do you?

Bradley. I left mine in my other clothes.

Mrs. Bradley. That's just like you men. You grow flippant over somewhatserious matters. For my part, if I am to play Gwendoline, I shallnot bail out the fountain even to save poor dear Bessie's floor.