_Landlady._ Well, now. Will you look at that! _(Paces up and down.)_
They come and use your rooms and if you ask what's due you, they
turn and run! That's what it is to be a landlady! That's the way
they treat you! _(Calls.)_ Here! You don't need to move to-night!
_(Follows off Left; calling.)_ What are you running for? I'm not
going to eat you! But I want you to know I got to have that money--I
got my own bills to pay. _(A bell sounds in the Real-play and the
Play-play fades instantly.)_

_Will._ God! It seems to me that bell rings all day and all night!

_Peggy (rising)._ Wait, dear. I'll answer it.

_(Rises and goes to door. Will continues absorbed in manuscript.)_

_Landlady (at door of Real-play)._ Good-evening. I've come for the
rent.

_Peggy._ I'm sorry, but you know I told you it would be a few days
yet.

_Landlady._ How many days do you call a few?

_Peggy._ Well, a day or two more.

_Landlady._ That rent's overdue a month. You'll have to get it
somehow or quit.

_Will (looking up from manuscript)._ Didn't I tell you you could