I'll call him.

[He runs after Jean. Helen helplessly watches them go, sighs, standing by the garden steps until John ascends. He looks at Helen a moment, wondering how to begin. She looks so capable and unafraid of him.

John

If you hadn't gone to college, you could have done what Jean is doing.

Helen

[with a shrug and a smile]

But how proud you must be, John, to have a sister who isn't compelled to marry one man while in love with another. Now, aren't you glad I went to college?

[She laughs good-naturedly at him.

John

Humph! If you think I'd let a sister of mine marry one of old man Baker's two-thousand-dollar employees——