Nicko

[Nicko taps his feet.]
Is it, the word, eggplants?
[Persephone shakes her head.]
Is it, the word, Pomegranate?
[Persephone says that it starts with a P but it isn’t that. Nicko opens a dictionary.]
Pace? Pack? Package? Pad? Page? Painful? Paint? Painter? Painting? Pair? Pale? Palm?