SECOND LADY GUEST

He'll be very disagreeable, I assure you.

ELSA

I'm not afraid of him.

[Wants to go up steps.

FIRST GENTLEMAN GUEST, L. C.

Miss Elsa, I really think you had better not.

SECOND LADY GUEST

If Miss Elsa wants to speak to him let her do so. I think she is the only one really capable of putting him in his place.

THIRD LADY GUEST, seated L. of table R.