A pause. She sighs restlessly.

HUBERT: Fed up?

OLIVIA: It's such a very inadequate expression, don't you think?… (After a pause) How bright the sun is to-day….

She is pensive, far-away, smiling.

HUBERT: A penny for 'em.

OLIVIA: I was just thinking … I often wonder on a very fine morning what it'll be like … for night to come. And I never can. And yet it's got to…. (Looking at his perplexed face) It is silly, isn't it?

DORA comes in from the kitchen with a duster and crosses towards the bedroom. She is a pretty, stupid, and rather sluttish country girl of twenty, wearing a maid's uniform. She looks depressed.

Who are those men, Dora?

DORA: What men, miss?

OLIVIA: Over there, behind the clearing.