windows. She smiles._]
Naturally it will _not_ be on the Roof Garden.

MENDEL [_Half to himself_]
Fancy David not saying a word about it to me! Are you sure the letter
was mailed?

VERA
I mailed it myself--a week ago. And even in New York----
[_She smiles. Re-enter KATHLEEN with the recovered candlestick._]

KATHLEEN
Bedad, ye're as great a shleep-walker as Mr. David!
[_She places the candlestick on the table and moves toward her
bedroom._]

MENDEL
Kathleen!

KATHLEEN [_Pursuing her walk without turning_]
I'm not here!

MENDEL
Did you take in a letter for Mr. David about a week ago?
[_Smiling at MISS REVENDAL_]
He doesn't get many, you see.

KATHLEEN [_Turning_]
A letter? Sure, I took in ounly a postcard from Miss Johnson, an' that
ounly sayin'----

VERA
And you don't remember a letter--a large letter--last Saturday--with the
seal of our Settlement?

KATHLEEN
Last Saturday wid a seal, is it? Sure, how could I forgit it?

MENDEL
Then you _did_ take it in?

KATHLEEN
Ye're wrong entirely. 'Twas the misthress took it in.

MENDEL [_To VERA_]
I am sorry the boy has been so rude.

KATHLEEN
But the misthress didn't give it him at wanst--she hid it away bekaz it
was _Shabbos_.

MENDEL
Oh, dear--and she has forgotten to give it to him. Excuse me.
[_He makes a hurried exit to the kitchen._]

KATHLEEN
And excuse _me_--I've me thrunk to pack.
[_She goes toward her bedroom, pauses at the door._]
And ye'll witness I don't pack the candleshtick.
[_Emphatic exit._]

VERA [_Still dazed_]
A Jew! That wonderful boy a Jew!... But then so was David the shepherd
youth with his harp and his psalms, the sweet singer in Israel.
[_She surveys the room and its contents with interest. The
windows rattle once or twice in the rising wind. The light gets
gradually less. She picks up the huge Hebrew tome on the piano
and puts it down with a slight smile as if overwhelmed by the
weight of alien antiquity. Then she goes over to the desk and
picks up the printed music._]
Mendelssohn's Concerto, Tartini's Sonata in G Minor, Bach's Chaconne...
[_She looks up at the book-rack._]
"History of the American Commonwealth," "Cyclopaedia of History,"
"History of the Jews"--he seems very fond of history. Ah, there's
Shelley and Tennyson.
[_With surprise_]
Nietzsche next to the Bible? No Russian books apparently----
[_Re-enter MENDEL triumphantly w