Father's Little Dividend

Stanley Banks: [Telephone rings at night] Hello. Buckley, do you know what time it is? It's a quarter to three.

Buckley Dunstan: I'm sorry, I didn't realize. Is Kay there?

Stanley Banks: [Sarcastically] But of course she, where would she be?

[Whispers]

Stanley Banks: Hello, I'll take this downstairs, hang on

[Puts down the receiver & quietly tiptoes downstairs to hall, then picks up the extension phone]

Stanley Banks: What do you mean. is she here?

Buckley Dunstan: Well, I thought if she were there I could come & pick her up if she were there.

Stanley Banks: When did she leave? What time did she leave?

Buckley Dunstan: I don't know, I've been out for a few hours, I just got back a little while ago.

Stanley Banks: What was it, a fight?

[Long pause]

Stanley Banks: DID you have a FIGHT?

Buckley Dunstan: We had an argument, yes. Look if anything happens to her, I'll kill myself.

Stanley Banks: Don't worry, I'll do it for you. Did she take anything, a bag or anything?

Buckley Dunstan: She took her hatbox, umbrella & toilet case & a toothbrush.

Stanley Banks: Don't worry about it then, if she took her toothbrush, she's not headed for the river.