Parbury.

Please do. Cut the other; it doesn’t make up anything.

Miss Woodward.

[Reading.] “One gathers from the complacency of his manner that his iconoclasm is its own reward.”

Parbury.

Thanks. Where’s his article?

[Miss Woodward rises, gives him an open magazine, and resumes her seat.

[After glancing at the magazine, and still in a low voice.] “His smug self-sufficiency——” [Pause.]

Mrs. Parbury.

Darling! I can’t hear you.