What exactly do you need help with?
Answer:
The pun explains that it takes time to do a procedure where you avoid the elevator. The steps refer to taking the stairs instead of the elevator. So it takes steps to use the stairs other than standing in the elevator.
Cheers.
Miss Maudie is part of the world where "fragrant ladies rocked slowly, fanned gently, and drank cool water" (24.53), but this rose never lets others forget her thorns. Unlike Miss Stephanie and Mrs. Dubose, however, Miss Maudie uses her sharp tongue to counter meanness rather than to perpetrate it.
