(Maude goes.)
Miss H. (moveless with astonishment). You ride it?
Jack (respectfully). Yes, ma'am.
Miss H. (aghast). Ride it?
Jack (fascinated). Yessum. (earnestly). Yes, ma'am.
Miss H. Ride a tantrum! Well, such goings on! And all of it comes from graduating! Thank Heaven, I never graduated!
(Commences to pick up things. Curtain.)
ACT II.
(Sitting-room of the De Smythe home. Bouquets with cards attached. Maude's desk, open, in confusion. Her hat and gloves on a chair. Jack, Miss Rantum and Maude, latter "practicing.")