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SCENE. -The Pelhams' living room. It is decorated for Christmas, and on tables are displayed many beautiful gifts that have been sent to Mr. and Mrs. Pelham.
Mrs. Pelham (in pretty evening gown and a spray of holly in her hair, looks wistful and discontented. She stands by a table and fingers some of the gifts, and then sits at the piano and hums a snatch of a Christmas carol, and then throws herself into an easy chair. She speaks): Dick, do stop reading the paper, and be Christmassy! It might as well be the eighteenth of July as the twenty-fourth of December, for all the Christmas spirit you show! I do think this is the pokiest old Christmas Eve I ever spent, and I thought it was going to be the loveliest! I thought for once I'd have everything ready ahead of time-and now look at the result! Nothing to do, nothing to enjoy, no surprises. Everybody said, "Let's buy our gifts early, and so save the poor shopgirls' lives. " And goodness knows I'm only too glad to help the poor shopgirls in any way I can!