MRS. SYLVESTER.

We’ll put those in afterwards. [Gerald looks at her.] That’s how Victoria always writes her novels. She begins at the end.

GERALD.

But this is a work of philosophy.

MRS. SYLVESTER [pouting].

Oh, you are disagreeable!

GERALD [putting MS. aside].

Don’t let us talk philosophy to-day. I want to talk to you about something else.

MRS. SYLVESTER [cheerfully].

Yes!