Georgiana. I'm tho thcared!
Miss Steele. My darling girls! Thank you for your sweet thoughts of me. Your pretty love-missives—
Gertrude. Gracious, but she can be sarcastic!
Miss Steele. —have won my heart. It is so long since I have had a real valentine I am very much touched. Laura, Gerty, thanks. Georgie, poor little dear, I was hard on you to-day. Alicia, Ada, Amanda, and you mischievous Mollie, let us all be friends.
[Cupid, on one side, is aiming arrows at Miss Steele.]
Mollie (aside). Girls, I shall faint. Is it a cat playing with a mouse?
Laura. We hope, Miss Steele, you won't mind our little joke. We did not mean to offend you.
Miss Steele. How could I be offended? (Reads one of the valentines.) Isn't that beautiful? And these pictures show such good taste. They are really gems of art.
Ada. Are we dreaming?
[Cupid, from the rear, makes frantic gestures to the girls, with finger on his mouth and shakes of his head.]