AGNUS
If you think she’ll be back after the way you just treated her, you may know some women, but not well-bred ones—
THE DEVIL (gloomily)
“When it comes to a man in the case, they’re as like as a pair of new pins.” I’ll have to spring the little actress on her yet, if I want to get rid of her.
AGNUS
Oh, don’t do that! Don’t let her think it’s on account of another woman—and such a woman—living in the house, too. She’ll never forgive that. No nice woman would.
THE DEVIL
You lamb! I’ve known women—nice women, too, mind you—on whom such a woman—as you call her—acted like a magnet. Not that they wanted to come back! Oh, no! They wanted to save the man from an abandoned creature. (Instructively) An abandoned creature, Agnus, is any other woman. No matter how good her character is, they’ll say she’s under cover with enough crime to crowd Callao—
[There is a knock at the hall door.
THE DEVIL (ironically looking toward hall door)