MRS. HEYST. Oh, so you've changed your mind again.
ELIS. Yes.
MRS. HEYST. Oh, you are so changeable!
ELIS. I know it, but I am tossed about like a chip in a high sea.
MRS. HEYST. I surely thought I heard a strange voice that I half recognized. But I must have been mistaken.[Points to Elis' overcoat.] That coat ought not to hang there, I said. [Goes out R.]
ELIS [Goes to L. Sees the lily on table]. Where did that plant come from?
BENJAMIN. There was a young lady here with it.
ELIS. Young lady! What's that? Who was it?
BENJAMIN. It was—
ELIS. Was it—my sister?