Enter Georgiana with a red shawl.
Georgiana. Ith thith what you wanted, Mith Thteele?
Miss Steele. No, dear. I said a white shawl. You don't call that white—do you? As usual, you were inattentive. Now listen. Take this back and lay it on my bed, and in the upper drawer, left-hand corner, there is my white shawl wrapped in a towel. Bring it to me. Now mind, the white shawl.
[Exit Georgiana.]
Amanda (whispers). She didn't say whether bureau or wash-stand. It isn't Georgie alone who is stupid.
Miss Steele. Miss Stuart, you are whispering. Tell me what you said.
Amanda. I said that child is too stupid for anything.
Miss Steele. She ought not to be stupid. She is very careless, owing, I suppose, to her bringing up. She has always been waited on too much.
Alicia. Does that make people careless?
Miss Steele. It's apt to do so.