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[Sitting down at left]

I hope lunch is ready soon. I’m hungry as the devil, aren’t you?

[Absent-mindedly]

Yes, Dad.

Come over here and tell me about your birthday.

[ comes over. pulls him up on his lap]

How’d you like your presents? What’d you get from Uncle Ned?

[Evasively]

They were all dandy.

[Suddenly]

Why was I named Gordon?

Oh, you know all about that—all about Gordon Shaw. I’ve told you time and again.

You told me once he was Mother’s beau—when she was a girl.

[Teasingly]

What do you know about beaus? You’re growing up!

Did Mother love him a lot?