t remember that I am your hostess.
(To REDDY.)
You'll find plates in the pantry, please.

REDDY:
Oh, I don't use them things.

ALICE:
You'll use "them things" when you eat with me. Go, do as I tell
you, please.
(REDDY exits..)
And you--put away that silly gun and help him.

HATCH:
Stay where you are.

HARRY:
Oh, what's the rush, governor? She can't hurt nobody. And I'm
near starved, too.
(Exit into pantry.)

HATCH:
This is the last time I take YOU out.

ALICE:
(arranging the food upon the table)
Now, why are you so peevish to everybody? Why don't you be
sociable, and take some supper?
(Glances at sideboard.)
You seem to have taken everything else. Oh, that reminds me.
Would you object to loaning me about--four, six--about six of our
knives and forks? Just for the supper. I suppose we can borrow
from the neighbors for breakfast. Unless you've been calling on
the neighbors, too.

HATCH:
Oh, anything to oblige a lady.
(Threateningly.)
But no tricks, now!

ALICE:
Oh, I can't promise that, because I mightn't be able to keep my
promise.

(HATCH brings silver knives and forks from the bag.)

HATCH:
I'll risk all the tricks you know. Nobody's got much the better of
me in the last twenty years.

ALICE:
Have you been a burglar twenty years? You must have begun very
young. I can't see your face very well, but I shouldn't say you
were--over forty. Do take that mask off. It looks so--unsociable.
Don't be afraid of me. I've a perfectly shocking memory for faces.
Now, I'm sure that under that unbecoming and terrifying exterior
you are hiding a kind and fatherly countenance. Am I right?
(Laughs.)
Why do you wear it?

HATCH:
(roughly)
To keep my face warm.

ALICE:
Oh, pardon me, my mistake.

(A locomotive whistle is heard at a distance. ALICE listens
eagerly. As the whistle dies away and is not repeated, her face
shows her disappointment.)

HATCH:
What was that? There's no trains this time of night.

ALICE:
(speaking partly to herself)
It was a freight train, going the other way.

HATCH:
(suspiciously)
The other way? The other way from where?

ALICE:
From where it started. Do you know, I've always wanted to meet a
burglar. But it's so difficult. They go out so seldom.