Mrs. Pampinelli. No, dear, facing the door.
Jenny. Oh, I see. [She turns it round facing the center-door.]
Mrs. Pampinelli. That’s it. I want it to catch her eye as she comes in. And now will you go back and fetch the others, Jenny?
Jenny. [Hurrying out through the center-door] Yes, mam.
Mrs. Pampinelli. [Gathering up the chrysanthemums from the table] And these chrysanthemums, [She sweeps across towards the mantelpiece and turns to her left, strewing the chrysanthemums through the center-door and down toward the table at the left.] I’ll just strew in her pathway. [Jenny comes in from the right hallway carrying a huge anchor of vivid red roses, with a broad band of navy-blue ribbon running diagonally across it, and the words “SEAMEN’S INSTITUTE” in white-velvet letters. She stands right in the center-door, holding it, waiting for instructions as to its disposition from Mrs. Pampinelli. But Mrs. Pampinelli is lost in admiration of it, standing just to the left of the center-door.] Now, set that right down here, Jenny. [She indicates a point at the extreme left, below the door, and Jenny hastens to place it there, setting it down half-facing the center-door; and Mrs. Pampinelli stands up at the center-door admiring it.] Hope! [Jenny turns to her and gives a faint little laugh.] Hope, for the success [She indicates the horseshoe with a gesture.] of our enterprise. [They both laugh, and Mrs. Pampinelli steps quickly down to the table below the piano and picks up the orchids.] And these orchids, I think I shall just put right here on this table. [She crosses to the table below the casement-window and puts them down; then straightens up and sighs.] Ho, dear me, I’m warm! [She crosses back between the piano and the table below it, picking up her fan as she goes.]
Jenny. [Moving up and across back of the table at the left, towards the center of the room] ’Tis a bit warm.
Mrs. Pampinelli. [Fanning herself, as she moves towards the middle of the room] And then I hurried so,—foolishly.
Jenny. Did everything go along all right?
Mrs. Pampinelli. Magnificently, my dear child! And Mrs. Ritter was a positive sensation.
Jenny. Did she get all these flowers?