Non-Union?
RALPH ARDSLEY.
They're united in the walls.
(_Laughter_)
EGERTON.
(_As they start for the stairs_)
Never you mind, gentlemen, 'twill not be long Until the model that I've built up here Will be the model everywhere.
GUESTS.
(_Led by Ralph Ardsley_)
Hurray!
(_Attracted by the shouting, some ladies look in, forward right_)
A LADY.
They do have such good times.
(_They withdraw_)
GENERAL CHADBOURNE.
(_From the steps to the Butler_)
I'll be upstairs.
(_Seeing the hall empty, the young people who have looked in occasionally from the conservatory, enter and take possession_)
RALPH ARDSLEY.
(_From the landing_)
h.e.l.lo, Gladys!
GLADYS EGERTON.
h.e.l.lo, Ardsley!
RALPH ARDSLEY.
(_Touching his throat_)
Stunning.
GLADYS EGERTON.
Thank you.
(_Ardsley disappears after the others. Mrs. Orr enters, forward right, and is later joined by Mrs. Egerton_)
MRS. ORR.
You surely have not spoken of this to him?
MRS. EGERTON.
The other night I started to.
MRS. ORR.
How could you!
(_Mrs. Egerton glances back uneasily into the room_)
MRS. ORR.
They're all right. Let's go here behind the pines.
MRS. EGERTON
(_Beckons to the Butler_)
Serve them the lunch now, Charles.
(_The Butler goes into the room, forward right. The two women pa.s.s left, where they are somewhat shut in by the pines_)
MRS. ORR.
What did he say?
MRS. EGERTON
And then--I don't know--something in his face-- Perhaps the wonder that I knew would come That such a thing--If people only knew-- Donald is not the hard unfeeling man-- And knowing this----
(_She hesitates_)
MRS. ORR.
And knowing what, my dear?
MRS. EGERTON.