Olive.
[Rising.] What other construction——?
John.
Olive, you are not keeping your promise——
Olive.
[Passionately.] I will keep my promise when I am treated openly and fairly. [Walking away.] I feel something is going on here that I don’t understand, that I am not allowed to understand.
John.
[To Mrs. Cloys and Sir Fletcher.] I am extremely sorry. But my wife is very fatigued and unstrung to-night——
Sir Fletcher Portwood.
Quite so, quite so. We are most inconsiderate, Harriet. Come—come; another time——