QUINCY
Excuse me——
[Introducing]
Miss Revendal!—I forgot you and Poppy hadn't been introduced—curiously enough it was at Wiesbaden I picked him up too—he was conducting the opera—your folks were in my box. I don't think I ever met anyone so mad on music as the Baron. And the Baroness told me he had retired from active service in the Army because of the torture of listening to the average military band. Ha! Ha! Ha!
VERA
Yes, my father once hoped my music would comfort him.
[She smiles sadly.]
Poor father! But a soldier must bear defeat. Herr Pappelmeister, may I not give you some tea?
[She sits again at the table.]
QUINCY