Betty [smiling]. He need have no fear.
Lady Gairloch [with a smile and a sigh]. Well, no one will be able to say it's a brilliant marriage, or a worldly marriage.
Betty. I'm not a worldly person. Nor is he, I am sure. There is nothing small or mean about him.
Lady Gairloch. I wonder what your father would have said to it.
Betty. I believe my dear father would have wanted me to be happy whatever kind of marriage it was. Come, darling mother, don't have any more misgivings. I feel as certain of myself as—that the sun is shining in at that window!
[Lady Gairloch smiles and kisses her. They go towards the window at the back, into which the sun is shining].
Betty. Even the view from Devonshire Street looks passable on such a morning as this!
[As they are standing at the back window looking out, so that the door in front room is hidden from them, Merton bursts in, followed by Jane].
Jane [violently]. I've always been used to be respectable, sir, and I won't stay, not another hour, in the house with that female as you brought in to sleep last night. And then her trying to shoot me dead when I went into the room! I leave your service to-night, sir, and I won't stay where there are such goings on.
Merton [furious]. Look here, if you want to go, go to the devil! and be damned! Not another word will I hear. [He pushes her out and shuts the door, turns back into the room]. Damn it all! What shall I do?