[angrily]
You are odious! Insufferable!
PIKE
[humbly]
Don't you think I know you despise me?
ETHEL
I do not despise you; if I had stayed at home, and grown up there, I should probably have been a provincial young woman playing "Sweet Genevieve" for you to-night. But my life has not been that, and you have humiliated me from the moment of your arrival here. You have made me ashamed both of you and of myself. And now you have some preposterous plan which will shame me again, humiliate both of us once more, before my friends, these gentlefolk.
[A loud noise without. LADY CREECH'S voice is heard shouting.][pg 142]
PIKE
[dryly]