Tarver.

It’s all that damned India! Oh! what have I said! You will never forgive me.

Salome.

Indeed, indeed I will!

Tarver.

Never. Oh, Miss Jedd, my forgetfulness has brought me—one of my—terrible attacks—of depression!

Salome.

Major Tarver!

[She leads him to a chair into which he sinks in a ghastly state. Darbey strolls in from the Library with Sheba.

Darbey.