SCENE III
Reading edition
Interior of Home of Old Lady.
Discovered: Santa Claus and the Old Lady.
Santa Claus [who has just come down the chimney]. Ho! Ho! What’s this? Crying? At Christmas time?
Old Lady [sobs]. Oh, I didn’t think you were coming at all; it got so late. So I thought I would play Mrs. Santa Claus. But my only son is away. So what’s the use? I thought surely he would come home for Christmas.
Santa Claus [puts his arm about her]. Never mind. You come along with me. I need a Mrs. Santa Claus to help me distribute the gifts. Perhaps we’ll come across your son in our travels.
Santa Claus and Old Lady exit joyously and enter sleigh at door.
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