Salome.
This comes of stooping to the Military!
Sheba.
It serves us right—we’ve been trained for clergymen’s wives. I hate Nugent Darbey. I hope he may grow bald early!
Salome.
Gerald Tarver’s nose is inclined to pink—may it deepen and deepen till it frightens cows!
[Voices are heard from the curtained window recess.
Darbey.
[Outside.] Miss Jedd—Sheba!
Tarver.