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!