MRS. DE MULLIN

Nothing. He just read it and gave it back to me without a word.

MRS. CLOUSTON

That’s the last you’ve heard of her, I suppose?

MRS. DE MULLIN

Oh no, Harriet.

MRS. CLOUSTON

Do you mean to say she goes on writing? And you allow her? When Hugo said she was not to?

MRS. DE MULLIN

(meekly)