pot which opens and shuts its lid at them, as if trying to
speak._)

JULIA. Oh, look, Laura! Martha's tea-pot has arrived.

LAURA. She told a lie, then.

JULIA. No, it was the truth. She wished for it. The sea has given up its
dead.

LAURA. Then now I _have_ got it at last!

(_But, as she goes to seize the disputed possession, Martha rises through
the floor, grabs the tea-pot, and descends to the nether regions once
more._)

LAURA (_glaring at her sister with haggard eye_). Julia, where _are_ we?

JULIA. I don't know what you mean, Laura. (_She reaches out a polite
hand._) The key?

(_Mrs. James delivers up the key as one glad to be rid of it._)

LAURA. What is this place we've come to?

JULIA (_persuasively_). Our home.

LAURA. I think we are in Hell!

JULIA (_going to the door, which she unlocks with soft triumph_). We are
all where we wish to be, Laura. (_A gong sounds._) That's supper. (_The
gong continues its metallic bumbling._)

(_Julia departs, leaving Mrs. James in undisputed possession of the
situation she has made for herself._)

CURTAIN

_Printed by
Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld.,
London and Aylesbury._

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