(Wearily.)

Men, just men.

MRS. EPPINGWELL

(Anger growing.)

You are all that has been said of you, a destroyer of men.

FREDA

(Nodding her head in assent.)

Come on, Floyd. I want you. And be warned by Mrs. Eppingwell, I want to destroy you. (Imperiously.)

Come.

(Vanderlip has by now been reduced to the helplessness of a puppet. He makes to start.)