ALICE. ‘Steve, if you don’t go away at once I shall scream.’
STEVE, really unhappy, ‘Is it as bad as that?’
AMY, rising, ‘You heard what Mrs. Grey said. This is very painful to her. Will you please say good-bye.’
In the novel circumstances he does not quite know how this should be carried out.
ALICE, also shy, ‘How shall we do it, Amy? On the brow?’
AMY. ‘No, mother—with the hand.’
They do it with the hand, and it is thus that the Colonel finds them. He would be unable to keep his countenance were it not for a warning look from Alice.
COLONEL, one of the men who have a genius for saying the right thing, ‘Ha.’
STEVE. ‘I am going, Colonel. I am very sorry that you——At the same time I wish you to understand that the fault is entirely mine.’
COLONEL, guardedly, ‘Ha.’