Dolly. Respected you!
Renie. [Firing up.] He is always most respectful! In the most delicate, exquisitely chivalrous way, he implored me for one first and only kiss, and just as I was refusing him, somebody passed the dairy windows——
Dolly. My father often strolls that way——
Renie. But I was quite cold and correct—— [Very anxiously.] Dolly, tell me exactly what Mr. Barron said?
Dolly. At first he was going to speak to you himself, but I said, "No, that's my duty! I'm her oldest friend; I'll talk to her!"
Renie. Ye—es?
Dolly. So, at last he consented, and said: "Very well. Be very firm with her, because this sort of thing taking place under my very nose and under my daughter's roof is what I cannot, and will not, tolerate for one moment!"
Renie. He must have passed the dairy windows!
Dolly. Yes.