[Bitterly.] How like a woman!

Quex.

Some women.

Frayne.

[In disgust.] Pah!

Quex.

Yesterday she was alluring.

Frayne.

[Waving the past from him.] Yesterday—[with a slight hiccup] hic! [Turning away apologetically.] The heat in this room—

[He walks away, as Sophy returns to Quex.