MARGERY.

Mrs. Sylvester is coming!

VICTORIA.

No need to apologize! A wife is just as much entitled to entertain another woman’s husband as a husband to entertain another man’s wife. You’re getting on, dear. That’s philosophy!

MARGERY.

Gerald is in the next room!

VICTORIA.

Then it’s not philosophy!

MARGERY.

I’ll go and wake him up.