Oh-h-h! You are a free-thinker. So am I!

DEVIL, as if astonished

You think?

SECOND GENTLEMAN GUEST

I do.

DEVIL

What with?

[Exit SECOND GENTLEMAN GUEST, angrily.

[To SECOND LADY GUEST, the stout one, seated R. of table L.

A pity you don't dance—there's nothing like it for reducing the figure.

[SECOND LADY GUEST rushes of.