She considers for a moment.

lucy. Why have you been talking to me as if I were someone else?

trebell. [Startled.] Who else?

lucy. No one particular. But you've shaken a moral fist so to speak. I don't think I provoked it.

trebell. It's a bad parliamentary habit. I apologise.

She gets up to go.

lucy. Now I shan't keep you longer . . you're always busy. You've been so easy to talk to. Thank you very much.

trebell. Why . . I wonder?

lucy. I knew you would be or I shouldn't have come. You think Life's an important thing, don't you? That's priggish, isn't it? Good-bye. We're coming to dinner . . Aunt Julia and I. Miss Trebell arrived to ask us just as I left.