THE YOUNG MAN (moving a chair close to hers and sitting)

And so we’re alone! (He speaks with a sentimental hushedness.) All alone!

JESSIE

All alone, Rupert! This is the only place in the hotel where you can be by yourself a while. That’s why I said to meet here.

RUPERT (nervously)

You don’t think your mother’ll be back for a while?

JESSIE

No; she won’t.

RUPERT

She hasn’t found out I’ve come, has she?