Dr. Van Hyde (seating himself): They are only human.
Rose (slyly): And you are very human.
Dr. Van Hyde (confusedly): I confess it—to-night.
Rose: That is why, then, you have been so easily deceived—to-night?
Dr. Van Hyde (jumping to his feet again): You mean?—
Rose: That you have actually been deceived. I have no mania—not even a mania to wed all the young men I meet. (Laughing merrily.) But, of course, you won’t believe me. My denial is only a symptom of my dementia.
Dr. Van Hyde: What can I think? Your father told me—
Rose: Yes, poor papa told you a great many things. You took it for granted that what he said was said with reason.
Dr. Van Hyde (moving toward her eagerly): And I have been—