SALVATORE: Cut it out, cut it out! Let's get to that!
CARTER: All right, then. I move--
MRS. SIMPSON [_shrilly_]: You can't move. The chairman can't move. If
you want to move you better resign!
CARTER: Well, then, somebody ought to move--
MRS. SIMPSON: Cut out the moving. She don't _haf_ to read 'em, does she?
CARTER: All right, then. Don't read 'em, Miss Gorodna.
SALVATORE: Well, git some kind of a move on.
CARTER: I was thinkin'--
NORA [_prompting_]: The next order--
CARTER: What?
NORA: The next order of business--
CARTER: Oh, yes! The next order of business--
NORA: Is reports of committees.
CARTER [_in a loud, confident voice_]: The next order of business is
reports of committees. [_Takes up some papers and goes on promptly._]
The first committee I will report on is my committee. I will state it is
very difficult reading, because consisting of figures written by the
bookkeeper, and pretty hard to make head or tail of, but--
MRS. SIMPSON: Oh, here, say! We got important things to come up here!
'Fore we know how much we're goin' to divide amongst us we got to settle
at once for all and for the last time how it's goin' to be divided and
how much each family gets.
SALVATORE: _Family?_
CARTER AND SHOMBERG [_together_]: Yes--family!
RILEY: You bet--family!
CARTER: Yes, sir!
SIMPSON: You _bet_ we'll settle how it's goin' to be divided!
SALVATORE: Why, even, of course; just like it has been. Ain't that the
principle we struggled for all these years, comrades?
MRS.
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