Now, isn't that just like Jane? I told her it might set fire to
the house and burn us alive.

REDDY:
It nearly burned me alive.

ALICE:
I'm so sorry.
(Takes from buffet a tray holding whiskey bottle, siphon, and three
glasses.)
Here, this is what you want. But, perhaps you don't like Scotch.

HATCH:
Don't you touch that, Reddy.
(Returns to chair at left of table.)

REDDY:
Why not?

ALICE:
(pours whiskey into a glass)
Yes; why not? It's not poison. There's nothing wrong with this
bottle. If you're afraid, I'll prove it to you. Just to show you
there's not a trace of hard feelings.
(Drinks and coughs violently.)

REDDY:
(sympathetically)
SHE'S got the benzine bottle, too.

ALICE:
No. I'm not quite used to that.
(To HARRY)
Excuse me, but aren't you getting tired holding that big pistol?
Don't you think you might put it down now, and help me serve this
supper?
(HARRY does not move.)
No? Well, then, let the colored gentleman help me.
(HARRY and REDDY wheel sharply, each pointing his revolver.)

REDDY:
Colored man! Where?

HARRY:
Colored man! It's a trap!

(Seeing no one, they turn.)

ALICE:
(to REDDY)
Oh, pardon me. Aren't you a colored person?

REDDY:
Me! Colored? You never see a colored man with hair like that, did
you?
(Points lantern at his head.)
This isn't my real face, lady. Why, out of office hours, I've a
complexion like cream and roses.
(Indignantly.)
Colored man!

ALICE:
I beg your pardon, but I can't see very well. Don't you think it
would be more cheerful if we had a little more light?

HATCH:
No!
(To REDDY.)
Drop that. We've got to go.
(To ALICE.)
And before we go, I've got to fix you.

ALICE:
Fix me--how "fix" me?

HATCH:
I'm sorry, Miss, but it's your own fault. You shouldn't have tried
to see us. Now that you HAVE, before we leave, I've got to tie you
to a chair--and gag you.

ALICE:
Oh, really--all of that?

HATCH:
I can't have you raising the neighborhood until we get well away.

ALICE:
I see. But--gagged--I'll look so foolish.

REDDY:
Well, there's no hurry. We won't get well away until I've had
something to eat.

ALICE:
Quite right.
(To Hatch.) You can tie me in a chair later, Mr. ----. But now
you mus