MRS. TILSBURY. Well, it is all the result of your Parade, Mrs. Thom. The Parade seems to have been a more speedy matchmaker than a dancing class.
MRS. THOM. I shall not stay here to be insulted.
MILDRED. Oh, Mrs. Thom, no one is insulting you. Don’t spoil this beautiful day. Let me give you a cup of tea. I am going to celebrate my engagement by giving a little gift to the cause.
MR. MELVIN. I will double it, Mrs. Thom.
MRS. BROWN. (Aside.) It is probably the last.
MRS. THOM. Make the check out to me please, Mary Henrietta Thom. We have no treasurer at present, and I am taking charge of the donations. I won’t stay for tea, thank you. I have an engagement and I know that you and Mr. Melvin have a lot to say to each other. Good-bye, dear child. May you be happy. (She kisses MILDRED, bows to the others, and goes.)
MRS. BROWN. (Aside to MRS. TILSBURY.) Well, there does not seem to be any one left for me but Mr. Van Tousel and his vice-president mother.
MRS. TILSBURY. Cheer up, dear, no one ever made a success out of a vice-presidency except Roosevelt.
MRS. BROWN. Well, I will hope for the best. Mr. Van Tousel, I feel so upset over Cochon’s death. I am afraid to go home alone. Will you see me around the corner? It is not very far. The apartment will be so lonesome without Cochon.
MR. VAN TOUSEL. Certainly, I will see you home, Mrs. Brown. I am coming in to call on you too. I have never been before because somehow I could not reconcile my idea of you as a lovely woman with a pig as a companion.