Mrs. Hunter. [Not looking at Clara.] Charming! We'll go upstairs and come down again; I don't think it nice to be found here as if we were expecting visitors.
[They go out Right.
[Jordan steps into the room to announce the visitors, and seeing no one there, bows as the three pass him.
Jordan. The ladies will be down at once.
[He goes out Right.
[The three turn, looking about the room with curiosity, as if the funeral might have made some difference in the house.
[Miss Sillerton is a handsome, attractive woman, most fashionably dressed and perfectly conventional in character and intelligence. Miss Godesby is a little slow, more assertive, sharper of tongue, more acutely intelligent, and equally smartly dressed. She has still a remnant of real, sincere feeling buried under a cynical mask which her life in a fast set has developed for her self-preservation. Trotter is a foolish young person, meaning well enough according to his lights, which are not of the biggest and brightest.
Trotter. Classy house altogether!
Miss Sillerton. Mrs. Hunter went to the most expensive decorator in town, and told him, no matter what it cost, to go ahead and do his worst!
[They all laugh and seat themselves comfortably.