ALICE. ‘He infuriated me.’
COLONEL. ‘He seems such a good boy.’
ALICE, the lowly, ‘No doubt he is. It must be very trying to have me for a mother.’
COLONEL. ‘Perhaps you were too demonstrative?’
ALICE. ‘I daresay. A woman he doesn’t know! No wonder I disgusted him.’
COLONEL. ‘I can’t make it out.’
ALICE, abjectly, ‘It’s quite simple. He saw through me at once; so did baby.’
The Colonel flings up his hands. He hears whisperings outside the door. He peeps and returns excitedly.
COLONEL. ‘Alice, there’s a girl there with Cosmo.’
ALICE, on her feet, with a cry, ‘Amy.’