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MR. BUNT DABS

Turning to Annie in utter surprise.

What! Can't you see him? How you surprise me! Pointing very definitely. He's sitting right over there in the bushes— the poor simp! ANNIE

How dare you talk like that about Mr. Bunt! You don't see anything, anyway. DABS

Don't I !

Pointing

He's right down there, now. Excitedly. Why, if he ain't trying to climb in the rain pipe! What do you think of that?

Dabs, I am afraid, is about to spit down on the imaginary Mr. Bunt when Annie, who has

lost all patience, collars him and puts him, struggling, in the window, which she shuts, re marking during the operation ANNIE

When Mummy comes back I am going to tell her how you've acted, and you can get out now and play by yourself. I don't want you around here. Annie, alone now on the little balcony, turns her attention to her dolls.

The door below opens quietly and a disconso late Dabs appears. He considers the situation,