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There’s an awful lot in the way you feel
    DORIS : Sometimes they’ll tell you nothing at all
    DUSTY : You’ve got to know what you want to ask them
    DORIS : You’ve got to know what you want to know
    DUSTY : It’s no use asking them too much
    DORIS : It’s no use asking more than once
    DUSTY : Sometimes they’re no use at all.
    DORIS : I’d like to know about that coffin.
    DUSTY : Well I never! What did I tell you?
    Wasn’t I saying I always draw court cards?
    The Knave of Hearts!
                             ( Whistle outside of the window. )
    Well I never
    What a co in cidence! Cards are queer!
    ( Whistle again. )
    DORIS : Is that Sam?
    DUSTY : Of course it’s Sam!
    DORIS : Of course, the Knave of Hearts is Sam!
    DUSTY ( leaning out of the window ): Hello Sam!
    WAUCHOPE :                               Hello dear
            How many’s up there?
    DUSTY :                                     Nobody’s up here
    How many’s down there?
    WAUCHOPE :                           Four of us here.
            Wait till I put the car round the corner
            We’ll be right up
    DUSTY : All right, come up.
    DUSTY ( to DORIS ): Cards are queer.
    DORIS : I’d like to know about that coffin.
    K NOCK K NOCK K NOCK
    K NOCK K NOCK K NOCK
    K NOCK
    K NOCK
    K NOCK
      D ORIS.   DUSTY.   WAUCHOPE.   HORSFALL.   KLIPSTEIN.   KRUMPACKER .
    WAUCHOPE : Hello Doris! Hello Dusty! How do you do!
    How come? how come? will you permit me —
    I think you girls both know Captain Horsfall —
    We want you to meet two friends of ours,
    American gentlemen here on business.
    Meet Mr. Klipstein. Meet Mr. Krumpacker.
    KLIPSTEIN : How do you do
    KRUMPACKER :                      How do you do
    KLIPSTEIN : I’m very pleased to make your acquaintance
    KRUMPACKER : Extremely pleased to become acquainted
    KLIPSTEIN : Sam — I should say Loot Sam Wauchope
    KRUMPACKER : Of the Canadian Expeditionary Force —
    KLIPSTEIN : The Loot has told us a lot about you.
    KRUMPACKER : We were all in the war together
    Klip and me and the Cap and Sam.
    KLIPSTEIN : Yes we did our bit, as you folks say,
    I’ll tell the world we got the Hun on the run
    KRUMPACKER : What about that poker game? eh what Sam?
    What about that poker game in Bordeaux?
    Yes Miss Dorrance you get Sam
    To tell about that poker game in Bordeaux.
    DUSTY : Do you know London well, Mr. Krumpacker?
    KLIPSTEIN : No we never been here before
    KRUMPACKER : We hit this town last night for the first time
    KLIPSTEIN : And I certainly hope it won’t be the last time.
    DORIS : You like London, Mr. Klipstein?
    KRUMPACKER : Do we like London? do we like London!
    Do we like London!! Eh what Klip?
    KLIPSTEIN : Say, Miss — er — uh — London’s swell.
    We like London fine.
    KRUMPACKER :                       Perfectly slick.
    DUSTY : Why don’t you come and live here then?
    KLIPSTEIN : Well, no, Miss — er — you haven’t quite got it
    (I’m afraid I didn’t quite catch your name —
    But I’m very pleased to meet you all the same) —
    London’s a little too gay for us
    Yes I’ll say a little too gay.
    KRUMPACKER : Yes London’s a little too gay for us
    Don’t think I mean anything coarse —
    But I’m afraid we couldn’t stand the pace.
    What about it Klip?
    KLIPSTEIN :                             You said it, Krum.
    London’s a slick place, London’s a swell place,
    London’s a fine place to come on a visit —
    KRUMPACKER : Specially when you got a real live Britisher
    A guy like Sam to show you around.
    Sam of course is at home in London,
    And he’s promised to show us around.
     

Fragment of an Agon
     
          SWEENEY. WAUCHOPE. HORSFALL. KLIPSTEIN.
    KRUMPACKER. SWARTS. SNOW. DORIS. DUSTY.
    SWEENEY :                              I’ll carry you off
    To a cannibal isle.
    DORIS