Mrs. Carley. [Still crying.] I haven't anybody in the world but you.
Louise. Don't I know that, don't I know I couldn't get on without you! There! [Kisses her.] Now it's all right. Come on, darling, come up and get your hair dyed.
Mrs. Carley. [Pleasantly.] Sh! don't call it that!
Louise. I am irritable lately, I know it—but I see without our money even Steve couldn't get us a decent position. We might just as well face the truth. Certain people don't appreciate you and me, mamma. We aren't even acquired tastes.
Mrs. Carley. No one ever appreciated me
long. I was prettier than you were at your age, and my husbands both fell in love with me at first sight. But I never wore well.
[She takes a magazine from the table and begins to cut the pages.
Louise. I wonder if Georgiana will marry Sammy!
Mrs. Carley. I wish to goodness she would.
Louise. I believe she's in love with Mr. Coleman.