AGNUS (miserably)

She’d laugh at me if I suggested it.

ONFROY (angrily)

Vain, sickening puss-in-boots!

AGNUS (angrily)

Noel, you’re talking of the woman I love—

[Outside a figure is seen at that moment darting through the bushes, trying to hide, and finally crouching down.

ONFROY

Of the minx you love; the caterwauling, manicured, massaged, Paris-gowned cocodette you love—

AGNUS (furious)