GERTRUDE. Character!
AMOS. Hush, Gerty!
ST. OLPHERTS. And who gathers her skirts tightly around her and tip-toes gently into the mire.
AMOS. To put it clearly: in order to get her unfaithful husband back to London, Mrs. Cleeve would deliberately employ this weak, unhappy woman as a lure.
ST. OLPHERTS. Perhaps Mrs. Cleeve is an unhappy woman.
GERTRUDE. What work for a wife!
ST. OLPHERTS. Wife—nonsense! She is only married to Cleeve.
AMOS. [Walking up and down.] It is proposed that this meeting should take place—when?
ST. OLPHERTS. I have brought Sir Sandford and Mrs. Cleeve with me.
[Pointing towards the outer door.] They are—
AMOS. If I decline?