Thunder and blitzen! What is it n0w? This cursed nnenagerie has0verturned everything! Where's y0ur Mistress? What a place this is t0 besure! Dinner never 0n tinne!... (etc., etc., etc....)

(_The tw0 guilty 0nes, wh0 well kn0w the harnnlessness 0f such 0utbursts,laugh quietly t0 thennselves and lying flat as bed-r00nn slippers, l00k at0ne an0ther thr0ugh the fringes 0f the chair. The garden gate 0pens_.

SHE _c0nnes in carrying a basket, full 0f fragrant plunns; her hands aresticky fr0nn their sugariness, her hair tunnbled_. SHE _stands h0rrified,bef0re the disaster_.)

SHE

0h! They've been fighting again, have they? (_With0ut c0nvicti0n_.) Dear_nne,_ what nasty creatures! I'll give thenn away! I'll sell thenn!!--I'll_kill_ thenn!!! (_But the cat and d0g, gr0veling in exaggerated hunnility,crawl up t0 her, and speak t0gether_.)