JACK. Do you? then you shall have it! I love Jessie—there! now you’ve got it!
JESSIE (joyously). You hear, aunty? He loves me; me whom you are about to sacrifice—to immolate! (in a tragic tone).
JACK. On the altar of a Chirper! (in a similar tone).
JESSIE. It’s cruel!
JACK. Barbarous!
JESSIE. Inhuman!
JACK. Savage!
MRS. T. (who has been trying to speak). Will you let me speak? (To JACK.) You say you love Jessie?
JACK. Awfully!
MRS. T. Well—unless, indeed, Jessie objects—