STEVE. ‘I don’t mean that at all.’

AMY. ‘Ginevra!’

Indeed Ginevra feels that she has been obliterated quite long enough.

GINEVRA, with a touch of testiness in her tone, ‘Amy—introduce me.’

AMY. ‘Mr. Stephen Rollo—Miss Dunbar. Miss Dunbar knows all.’

Ginevra makes a movement that the cynical might describe as brushing Amy aside.

GINEVRA. ‘May I ask, Mr. Rollo, what are your views about woman?’

STEVE. ‘Really I—’

GINEVRA. ‘Is she, in your opinion, her husband’s equal, or is she his chattel?’

STEVE. ‘Honestly, I am so beside myself—’