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Page 51
MURIEL.
[_Coldly, seating herself upon the bench._] Nothing--anything.
SOPHY.
Nothing!
MURIEL.
A hundred topics of conversation would lead to such an expression.
[_Looking at_ SOPHY _steadily._] You are mistaken in the construction
you put upon it.
SOPHY.
[_Quietly._] Mistaken, am I?
MURIEL.
[_With clenched hands._] The Duchess of Strood is a most immaculate
woman. [_Suddenly._] Oh, it would be too infamous!
[_The_ DUCHESS _and_ FRAYNE, _followed by_ MRS. EDEN, _reappear behind
the low hedge._ SOPHY _retreats to the back of the bench upon which_
MURIEL _is sitting. The_ DUCHESS _and_ FRAYNE _approach, talking,
while_ MRS. EDEN _chats to_ SOPHY _across the hedge._
FRAYNE.
[_To the_ DUCHESS, _gallantly._] I am flattered by your remembrance of
me, Duchess. When we last met I had hardly a grey hair in my head.
[_Running his hand through his hair._] Ha! The West Coast--!
DUCHESS.
Is the climate so terrible?
FRAYNE.
Deadly. But the worst of it is, [_with a bow and a sigh_] we have no
European ladies.
[MURIEL--_eyeing the_ DUCHESS--_rises, shrinkingly, and steals away._
FRAYNE.
[_Looking after_ MURIEL.] Quex! ha, there's a lucky dog, now!
DUCHESS.
[_Sweetly._] You are delighted, naturally, at your old friend's
approaching marriage?
FRAYNE.
[_Kissing his finger-tips towards the left._] Miss Eden--!
[_Inquisitively._] And--and _you_, Duchess?
DUCHESS.
[_Raising her eyebrows._] I?
FRAYNE.
You also approve his choice?
DUCHESS.
[_Blandly._] Approve? I am scarcely sufficiently intimate with either
party to express approval or disapproval.
FRAYNE.
[_Eyeing her askance._] Pardon. I thought you had known Quex
for--ah--some years.
DUCHESS.
Quite superficially. I should describe him rather as a great friend of
his Grace.
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