DEVIL
We'll be alone in no time.
[ELSA goes to sofa and sits L. of table L.
FOURTH LADY GUEST, crosses to him; to DEVIL
I'm very glad you spoke that way to Elsa. You have quite won me over, and I don't mind telling you I came very near having to pick a bone with you.
DEVIL, R. C., to FOURTH LADY GUEST, who is very thin—looking at her from head to foot
By the way, speaking of bones—
FOURTH LADY GUEST
What! Again!—oh!
[Walks off highly offended.