I have not met such kindness for three years. I... I'm starving. I've known better times.
MARY [kindly]
I'll get you something. You've known better times, you say?
JOHN
I had been intended for work in the City. And then, then I travelled, and—and I got very much taken with foreign countries, and I thought—but it all went to pieces. I lost everything. Here I am, starving.
MARY [as one might reply to the Mayoress who had lost her gloves]
O, I'm so sorry.
[JOHN sighs deeply.]
MARY
I'll get a nice bit of something to eat.