These, with the other guests who gradually depart, suggest the atmosphere of a conventional tea.)
Omnes
(Enthusiastically to Silverton)
How delightful! How wonderful!
(George Silverton is medium-sized, in the late thirties, with a fine, sensitive face and short-cropped hair. He is retiring in manner and seems ill at ease in the present company. Towards Patricia, however, this disappears and it is evident he has known her well.)
The Brown One
(Shrugging her shoulders, and splashing each sentence with jerky gestures throughout.)
He has such a je-ne-sais-quoi. Don’t you think?
The Blue One
(In a shocked tone)