THE CLIMBERS



arriving I That's queer - nobody comes here

in the winter; that's why we chose it, because it

would be quiet! Let's play this game.

  [Going to an iron Irog on a box which stands

    near the house.

  TROTTER. Perhaps it's Mrs. Sterling.

  CLARA. No; if she was coming at all, she'd have

come in time for the wedding. [She takes up the

disks which lie beside the frog.] I should hate to

get married like you and mama - no splurge and

no presents! Why, the presents'd be half the fun !

And think of all those you and she've given in

your life, and have lost now a good chance of

getting back.

       [Throws a disk into the Irog's open mouth.

  TROTTER. I'll give your mother all the presents

she wants. I can afford it; I don't want anybody

to give us anything!



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