A. She said she really and truly knew.
F. Isn’t it amazing?
A. It is per-fectly incomprehensible.
E. Well, good-bye. I hope you’ll have good luck at the Whist Club to-night.
A. Oh, do come back till I tell you what Mr. Fremont said about the Whist Club.
[Fanny returns to the foot of the steps, and Alice goes half way down to meet her.]
A. He said he wasn’t going to the Whist Club any more, and I asked him why not, and he said he was tired of taking girls down to feed, when they’d been talking so all the evening that he couldn’t play.
F. Why, I never heard anything so insulting!
A. I told Mr. Van Bruch, and he said the trouble was that Mr. Fremont wanted all the time to feed himself.
F. Good. Do you know Colonel Graham says that he went to the Vaughns’ to play whist, and they held a conversazione instead. Wasn’t that clever?