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)