PRIMROSE DEANE.

(Curtseying.) I thank you, fair sir. How very agreeable we've become all of a sudden.

TED MORRIS.

"Become!" Ain't I always agreeable?

PRIMROSE DEANE.

No. Not when you talk about going away and never coming back, and say you hope it will be a long while before you see any of us again.

TED MORRIS.

I—I don't think I said I "hoped" it would be a long while. I think I said I feared it might be.

PRIMROSE DEANE.

Oh, well, it's all the same. You needn't go away at all unless you liked.