MRS. MUNNING. What's that you're hiding behind you all this time?
ZACK. I'd forgotten these. (He discloses a small bunch of roses.) They're wild roses from the hedge and I came back to put them in Virginia's room when she's not there, same as I have done every day, only I'd forgotten them this morning.
MRS. MUNNING. You can just leave off doing it then. Virginia's room! Have you no sense of decency?
ZACK. I'm sure she likes them, mother.
PAUL (anxiously). She never told you so?
ZACK. No, but I've seen her smiling at me and——
MRS. MUNNING. She may well smile. Your ways would make a cat laugh.
ZACK. I'll—I'll throw the flowers away. (He turns towards door.)
PAUL. Give me those flowers! (Following him to door.)
ZACK. But——