Mrs. Cloys.
Be quiet, Claude, please!
Olive.
[Rising and going to John.] John, really——
John.
[Hotly.] Look here, Emptage, you’re a boy—at any rate, a very young man——!
Claude.
I am a truly unfortunate young man. A blight has been cast upon my name at the very outset of my career——
John.
[Bluntly.] What career?