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"TheyI sent in so It's a new idea The ho part When it co lines, they all look at me out of the three walls and I say the lines Here, for instance, the man says, 'What do you think of this whole idea, Helen?' And he looks at e, see? And I say, I say--" She paused and ran her finger under a line on the script "'I think that's fine!' And then they go on with the play until he says, 'Do you agree to that, Helen?' and I say, 'I sure do!' Isn't that fun, Guy?"

He stood in the hall looking at her

"It's sure fun," she said

"What's the play about?"

"I just told you There are these people named Bob and Ruth and Helen"

"Oh"

"It's really fun It'll be even more fun e can afford to have the fourth wall installed How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in? It's only two thousand dollars"

"That's one-third of my yearly pay"

"It's only two thousand dollars," she replied "And I should think you'd consider me sometimes If we had a fourth wall, why it'd be just like this room wasn't ours at all, but all kinds of exotic people's roos"

"We're already doing without a few things to pay for the third wall It was put in only two o, remember?"

"Is that all it was?" She sat looking at hioodbye, dear"

"Goodbye," he said He stopped and turned around "Does it have a happy ending?"

"I haven't read that far"

He walked over, read the last page, nodded, folded the script, and handed it back to her He walked out of the house into the rain

The rain was thinning away and the girl alking in the center of the sideith her head up and the few drops falling on her face She s