Spank!
GEORGIANA. Ogre! Very well! After all, I'm not vain! It would take
Barnum's human snake to get out of this gracefully, anyway!
[_Coming out, arranging her dress and hair._
DICK. Have some help?
GEORGIANA. No, thank you. But still, what a horrid person you are,
aren't you?
[_They both laugh._
DICK. _You_ aren't!
GEORGIANA. O dear me! Making up now with a compliment! Well, what do
you think of my birthday antics? Playing hide and seek--or, perhaps,
trained elephants--doesn't interest you!
CHRISTOPHER. Lelephants! Oh, Auntie! Is the _circus_ coming?
[_The children give themselves up to transports._ PHIL _hugs_ TOOTS _and
repeats "Circus."_
GEORGIANA. No, darling, but this circus is going--your old-maid aunt--to
put herself to rights!
DICK. You couldn't improve on present appearances!
GEORGIANA. Really! Such fine speeches! But they don't go with your
manners! Would you like to join in the game?
PHILIP. Oh, yes! Hurrah!
[_Runs to_ DICK, _when_ MRS. CARLEY _comes in from the Left._
MRS. CARLEY. Well! What's going on?
PHILIP. Birthdays!
MRS. CARLEY. Not for me!
GEORGIANA.
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