 The sisters debate whether to hire a maid. The cost is high, but others pay, so why can t they? The first candidate to respond to their ad is a young man. He seems to have extensive problems with the law, both civil and criminal. His responses are full of plays on words. He says he can do miracles in the kitchen, and describes on: candied pumpkin can be made into candied watermelon by just adding a few drops of Mercurochrome. His responses are interspersed with questions of his own: whether they keep money at home or in a bank; if they live on a pension or from their investments; if they keep a checkbook at home; it they have a safe. He asks to see the rest of the house, and offers his reason as "esthetic interest, to see if the whole house has this style of semi-destroyed poor man s Colonial." They usher him out, and Aurora then regrets that he seemed to want to rob them, as she found him a heartthrob. The next candidate asks if her room would have an entrance of its own; she goes out dating every night. Aurora asks if that doesn t get tiring, and she responds that no, as she has a different boyfriend for every night of the week. She insists on the going rate, which is two and a half times what the sisters had hoped to pay. She ll take advantage of this night s date to bring her things. He drives a steam roller for the town, and will give her a lift. Aurora asks if the steamroller won t be a problem if they run into someone from the town; the girl replies that her boyfriend switches the license plate from an official to an ordinary one, so that the vehicle looks like a private car.