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 The Worsted Man Doll. Just as an automobile has to have a tank to keep the gasoline in. Babette. You ve got it. Doll. Or a billionaire has to have a check-book to keep his money in. Marianna. You think remarkably well with that excelsior gray matter of yours, Mr. Woolley. Ethelinda. Ain t he grand! Doll. And then there are rules for this game of love. Babette. Unless you are a flirt, Mr. Woolley. Doll A flirt? What is a flirt? It sounds rather attractive. Impatience. (Aside.) How impru dent of you, Babette, to mention such a thing in the presence of this child of zephyr! (Severely, to the Doll.) A flirt is a robber a bandit a burglar who breaks into the bank of love and steals away its treasures that he may squander them. A flirt is a bankrupt in con- 39