Wait a moment.
(Passes behind him to door at right.)
(Vanderlip rests under the idea that she has gone to take down hair, fills glass, and leans complacently back in chair and sips from glass.)
(Freda opens door to right and beckons. Closes door, listens for a moment on way back to chair, and sits down.)
VANDERLIP
(Looking at her hair, still up, surprised and grieved.)
Why, I thought all the time you were taking it down.
(Freda laughs her silvery, scornful laughter. Vanderlip is puzzled, thinks she is teasing him.)
(Maid enters, unobserved by Vanderlip. Freda issues her order with her eyes, glancing at Vanderlip's bearskin overcoat hanging on wall to rear. Maid goes and gets coat and returns, still unobserved by Vanderlip, at the rear of whom she stands waiting.)