MRS. MASTERSON. I know—I know. But then, the world is so quick to gossip. They might say we were doing it because he left his fortune to a girl in the Cannibal Islands!
DR. MASTERSON. Perhaps it's just as well the girl's to be here.
MRS. MASTERSON. Yes, if we can keep her within bounds. I shall be on pins and needles till it's over.
LETITIA. Such a white elephant in one's home!
MRS. MASTERSON. And then the way Freddy and Ethel are behaving!
LETITIA. Freddy wanted to stay from college and Ethel from her music lesson—both of them to go and sit around in the stores while Oceana bought clothes!
DR. MASTERSON. Well, of all things!
MRS. MASTERSON. I hardly know Ethel any more!
LETITIA. And Freddy sits around and stares at her like a man out of his wits!
MRS. MASTERSON. That'll be the next thing, I suppose... she'll run off and marry him!