Austin. [Half laughing.] This is apropos of what, please? I have absolutely no sympathy with such people.
Jinny. In America that girl would have simply turned on the gas.
Austin. You're getting morbid, Jinny!
Jinny. No, I'm not! but if ever—
Austin. [Interrupting—laughing it off.] I shall install electric light as soon as we get home!
[They both laugh.
Jinny. I'm sorry I was so disagreeable to Ruth, but I'll try to make up for it in every way I can.
[She sits on the bench and he leans over the back toward her.
Austin. There's one other thing, Jinny, I'd like to speak of now. Would you mind giving up the Lakes and going home this week?
Jinny. Going home—at once?