Mrs. Ray

Why, of course. But haven’t we been looking for that sort of place for years; even when we weren’t free to live where we wished?

Professor

I can’t see why money is always getting in the way of our dreams. I often wonder what scoundrel it was who first invented money.

Mrs. Ray

And yet we might now be able to have what we wished if——

Professor

If? The eternal if?

Mrs. Ray

(She has gone to the table, placing rose there)