VANILLITY (desperately)
I can’t help it: I must see him.
[He flings open the laboratory door, revealing the room with its blinds drawn and Agnus, Schwartzenhopfel and Magnus seated in a sort of stupor, side by side. Above them hovers a Red Light.
VANILLITY
Addington, my boy! Addington! (He shakes him)
[Agnus opens his eyes slowly and sees Vanillity.
VANILLITY
Addington—just a moment alone—
AGNUS (joyously)
Addington.—You called me Addington.—Then it’s so—it’s so. (He brushes past Vanillity, runs into the room, disregarding women, and throws back curtain from mirror) It’s so! It’s so! (Sees Fanny) Fanny!