MELESINDA But then, she takes care to make everybody's business her own, and so to justify herself that way——(aside).
FIRST LADY
My dear Melesinda, you look thoughtful.
MELESINDA
Nothing. SECOND LADY
Give it a name.
MELESINDA
Perhaps it is nameless.
FIRST LADY As the object——Come, never blush, nor deny it, child. Bless me, what great ugly thing is that, that dangles at your bosom?
MELESINDA
This? it is a cross: how do you like it?
SECOND LADY
A cross! Well, to me it looks for all the world like a great staring H.
(Here a general laugh.)
MELESINDA
Malicious creatures! Believe me it is a cross, and nothing but a cross.
FIRST LADY
A cross, I believe, you would willingly hang at.