JOHN. To invite Sybil? Then of course I won’t go, Maggie.
MAGGIE [wondering seemingly at these niceties]. What does it matter? Is anything to be considered except the speech? [It has been admitted that she was a little devil.] And, with Sybil on the spot, John, to help you and inspire you, what a speech it will be!
JOHN [carried away]. Maggie, you really are a very generous woman.
SYBIL [convinced at last]. She is indeed.
JOHN. And you’re queer too. How many women in the circumstances would sit down to write a letter?
MAGGIE. It’s a letter to you, John.
JOHN. To me?
MAGGIE. I’ll give it to you when it’s finished, but I ask you not to open it till your visit to the Comtesse ends.
JOHN. What is it about?
MAGGIE. It’s practical.