_Will_. Oh, hell!

_Peggy_. Wait, dear. (_Exit Left, calls down shaft._) Lower, please.
No--I said _lower_. There--not too low! (_Enters with can._) All
right! Now, our troubles are over. Listen, dear. If you really want
to write, you've got to think about your audience, and what they
like. Just see, to begin with, you've left out the most important
thing in any play--whether it's a high-brow tragedy or Third Avenue
melodrama.

_Will_. What's that?

_Peggy_. The love interest.

_Will_. That's to come in the second act.

_Peggy_. Why the _second_ act?

_Will_. That's where Jack meets the heroine. I can't have two
love-stories!

_Peggy_. My dear boy, you can have a dozen, if you've wit enough to
get them in.

_Will_. With only one hero?

_Peggy_. Good Lord, Will! Didn't you ever love any woman but me?

_Will (disconcerted)_. But, Peggy----