JENNY. I think so too. [Starts for the door.
ALICE. [Rising] Go!
JENNY. [Stops] I wonder, ma'am, what you'd say if I did go?
ALICE remains silent.
JENNY goes out.
The CAPTAIN comes forward and lights the lamp.
ALICE. [With concern] Do you think she will go?
CAPTAIN. Shouldn't wonder. And then we are in for it——
ALICE. It's your fault! You spoil them.
CAPTAIN. Not at all. Can't you see that they are always polite to me?
ALICE. Because you cringe to them. And you always cringe to inferiors, for that matter, because, like all despots, you have the nature of a slave.
CAPTAIN. There—there!