GEORGE. No; not of you.
HENRIETTE. Yes, you are. But you have always been, so I don’t mind. And then I know at the bottom you feel things so keenly that it makes you rather afraid.
GEORGE [seriously] I was laughed at so much when I was a boy.
HENRIETTE [gaily] Besides, perhaps you have reasons for not having too much confidence in men’s friendships with their friends’ wives. Gay deceiver!
GEORGE [laughing] I should like to know what you mean by that.
HENRIETTE. Suppose I had thought it was Gustave and answered: ‘Very well, thanks. How are you, darling?’
GEORGE [laughing] Well, it is a trick that I shouldn’t like to try on everyone. [Changing the conversation] By the way, as I came in Justin spoke to me.
HENRIETTE. Well?
GEORGE. He says he wants a rise.