MRS. SYLVESTER.

Yes, but what is the best? [Margery grimaces at her.] Is our mistake so hopeless, irremediable? After all, is not true loyalty loyalty to oneself?

GERALD [looks at her].

You think so?

MRS. SYLVESTER.

Or what becomes of our philosophy?

GERALD.

Yes, what becomes of it?

[Another pause. Margery laughs almost audibly. During the next passage the laugh subsides into an expression of perplexity.

MRS. SYLVESTER.