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QUEX.
[_Perceiving_ SOPHY _and approaching her._] How are you, Miss
Fullgarney?
SOPHY.
[_Respectfully, but icily._] Oh, how do you do, my lord?
[MISS CLARIDGE _withdraws._ FRAYNE _comes forward, eyeing_ SOPHY _with
interest._
QUEX.
My aunt--Lady Owbridge--has asked me to meet her here at two o'clock.
Her ladyship is lunching at a tea-shop close by--bunning is a more
fitting expression--with Mrs. Eden and Miss Eden.
SOPHY.
[_Gladly._] Miss Muriel!
QUEX.
Yes, I believe Miss Muriel will place her pretty finger-tips in your
charge, [_partly to_ FRAYNE] while I escort Lady Owbridge and Mrs. Jack
to view this new biblical picture--[_with a gesture_] a few doors up.
What is the subject?--Moses in the Bulrushes. [_To_ FRAYNE.] Come with
us, Chick.
SOPHY.
It's not quite two, my lord; if you like, you've just time to run in
next door and have your palm read.
QUEX.
My palm--?
SOPHY.
By this extraordinary palmist everybody is talking about--Valma.
QUEX.
[_Pleasantly._] One of these fortune-telling fellows, eh? [_Shaking his
head._] I prefer the gipsy on Epsom race-course.
SOPHY.
[_Under her breath._] Oh, indeed! [_Curtly._] Please take a seat.
[_She flounces up to the desk and busies herself there vindictively._
FRAYNE.
[_To_ QUEX.] Who's that gal? what's her name?
QUEX.
Fullgarney; a prot�g�e of the Edens. Her father was bailiff to old Mr.
Eden, at their place in Norfolk.
FRAYNE.
Rather alluring--eh, what?
QUEX.
[_Wincing._] Don't, Chick!
FRAYNE.
My dear Harry, it is perfectly proper, now that you are affianced to
Miss Eden, and have reformed all that sort of thing--it is perfectly
proper that you should no longer observe pretty women too narrowly.
QUEX.
Obviously.
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