MARIANO

Miss Granger-Seempson!

[Exit.]

PIKE

All right, Mariano!

[ETHEL enters haughtily.]

I'm much obliged to you for taking my note the right way. I've got some pretty good reasons for not leaving this room.[pg 139]

[She is icy in manner, but her hands fidget with the note he has sent her, crumpling it up.]

ETHEL

[sitting]