Scene: A small room in Haggis Hall. Angus McAverice is vetting his wife's accounts when her sister arrives unexpectedly. He, fearful of the cost of feeding her , orders her to be ejected until he discovers that she has brought a valuable necklace for him to look after. While he is opening the family vault, the two women confer and decide it is time to act against Angus's meaness. They agree to knock him out on his return and finally discover what he has been hoarding in the vault. Unfortunately, Angus has ommitted to tell them that his forebears were too mean to pay for a stairway to the vault.

Published by Player Playwrights 1997