John Speaker
Come, come, you don't doubt the genuineness of our affection, do you,
Cousin Fanny? You've known me from my boyhood,
Cousin Fanny, and you've lived with us for ten years. You ought to know us by this time! You ought to know us in ten years!
Mary Thinker Ten years of torture!
John Thinker It can't last much longer!
John Speaker
[Who has taken her hand again, and has been patting it as a continuation of his last speech, and looking at her fondly.]
You trust us, don't you,
Cousin Fanny? You really are sure of our affection, aren't you?
Cousin Fanny
[To
John Speaker. She shows that she really is willing to be convinced; she searches their faces wistfully; she is pathetically eager. ]
John, John, you really do care for me, don't you? [She takes a hand of each.]