MR. TILSBURY. Well, most people seem to think it indicates wire-pulling.
MRS. BROWN. Dear me, how interesting. Come over here on the sofa, Josephine. I want you to tell me all about them.
MRS. TILSBURY. About whom?
MRS. BROWN. Why about Mr. Becker and Mr. Van Tousel, of course.
MRS. TILSBURY. You know as much about them as I do. They are both after Mildred because of her money, and they keep running here all the time. They seem nice enough men otherwise.
MRS. BROWN. They are too old for Mildred.
MRS. TILSBURY. Yes, but all the young men and boys are scared off by her seriousness and rights of women ideas, but old birds you know are harder to frighten away. They think that if a marriage sometimes reforms a man, it generally transforms a woman into the stereotyped wife, and that as soon as Mildred is married she will settle down. (Goes on drawing.)
MRS. BROWN. What are you doing?
MRS. TILSBURY. I was trying to design a cellar decoration.
MRS. BROWN. I thought they were generally white-washed, but of course living in an apartment, it is so long since I have thought about a cellar or a roof that I am not up to the latest fads.