Don’t you want a cocktail before you go?

Clara

No, darling—I should only hiccup all the evening. Good-bye, you’ve been such a comfort—good-bye, Helen—Pawnie, you will be nicer to me over the week-end, won’t you? I shall be so depressed, what with Gregory going away and everything—Good-bye, Tom—I shall dine in bed and give way at every pore——

[She goes out.]

Pawnie

Poor Clara—she eternally labors under the delusion that she really matters.

Helen

We all do that a little.

Florence

[Laughing]