Roger. (Repulsing her as he rises) This is too much!

Suzanne. I’m an awful tease, am I not? Well, I’ll get my notebooks for you: they’ll calm us down a little. (She stops in the doorway and looks at him) Oh, here are the ladies and M. Bellac! What! Lucy in an evening gown? Wait one moment! (She runs out)

Roger. (Agitated) This is decidedly too much!

(Enter the Duchess.)

Duchess. Well?

Roger. Well——

Duchess. How excited you look!

Roger. You see, she was so affectionate—too affectionate!

Duchess. Yes, I advise you to complain! See what I have found! (She takes a mounted photograph from between the leaves of Suzanne’s notebook)

Roger. A picture——