SALOME. Whom else? Your cousins. And I have just sent for your sister-in-law.
OSSEP [
anxiously
]. For what purpose? She could have come another time just as well.
SALOME. How useless it is to talk so! You understand nothing at all about the matter. Your relatives would take offence in every possible way if I did not invite them. They would not speak to me for a year!
OSSEP. Great heaven! I wish they were struck blind! [
Sits down and pulls at the end of the table-cloth
.] I would take pleasure in throwing them all out!
SALOME. I have no time to dispute with you.
[Exit at left, angry.