Mrs. M: Visitors, always Visitors, nothing but, Visitors all day long. I’m beginning to feel like a society matron.
Mrs. M: Tony! I thought you were on the province?
Tony: Is that you Aling Atang?
Mrs. M: Of Course! It’s I. Foolish Boy. Why?
Tony: You don’t like Aling Atang.
Mrs. M: I had a haircut. Think it’s horrible?
Tony: Oh, no. no.. You look just wonderful. Aling Atang for a moment, I thought you were Kikay.
Mrs. M: You are so palikero as ever. Tony but come in. Here sit down. Oh! Hulyo. Tony is here.
Mang Hulyo: Oh! Tony. Come on. Play with me.
Mrs. M: Before that how is your mother Tony?
Tony: Poor mother. She is homesick for Tondo. She wants to come back here at once.
Mrs. M: How long have you been away?
Tony: Only 3 months.
Mrs. M: Only 3 months?! It’s too long for a Tondo native to be away from Tondo.
Tony: Well, you know we engineers are always on call. But as soon as I finish the bridge in Bulacan, we’ll be going here in Tondo.
Mrs. M: Yes. Bring her back as soon as possible. We miss her when we play mahjong.
Tony: That is what she misses most of all.
Mrs. M: I understand. Once a Tondo girl always a Tondo girl.
Tony: When did Kikay arrived Aling Atang?
Mrs. M: Last Monday
Tony: I didn’t know it ‘till I read it in a newspaper.
Mrs. M: That girl only arrived last Monday and look what happened to me! She dragged me to parlor. My hair was cut, eyebrows shaved, nails manicured. And So on.
Tony: You look just wonderful, and where is she now?
Mrs. M: Who?
Tony: Kikay? Is he at home?
Mrs. M: She’s still sleeping.
Tony: Still sleeping?!
Mrs. M: She says, in New York, people don’t wake up until 12:00 noon.
Tony: It’s only 10:00 now.
Mrs. M: Besides she’s busy. Since she came home. Welcome parties here and there. Visitors all day long. She’s spinning like a top.
Tony: Well, will you tell her I called welcome her. And kindly give her these flowers.
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