JACK (taking cap off). Elsie, what are you doing here?
ELSIE. I came to—to see your mother.
JACK. You've told her about us?
ELSIE. Yes.
JACK. It should have come from me. She'd expect that. But no matter, now she knows. What did she say?
ELSIE (hesitating, then plunging). It's—it's all right, Jack.
JACK. Hurrah! Then we've a clear road now. I was a bit afraid. Mother has a will of her own, and she's not easy to please. But I might have known she couldn't resist you. Tell me what she said when you pleaded to her with the loveliest eyes in the world and told her you loved me.
ELSIE (awkwardly). Well——
JACK (interrupting enthusiastically). Yes, I know—you needn't tell me. I can see it all. You there, she here, and then you fell into each other's arms, and she kissed you, and what you said to each other I'm not to know, for it was women's talk not meant for men to hear.
ELSIE. Jack, you've never been like this before.