Kitty: Aunty! Can it be you? This is delightful! (They embrace.)
Lady Flo: I'm glad you call it delightful! I came here as a little surprise to you; but I daresay you will think me a great bore for taking you by storm, and interrupting your tête-à-tête with Jem.
Kitty: Oh! far from it! I am only too, too happy you've come!
Lady Flo: Is that the real truth?
Kitty: Indeed, it is!
Lady Flo: I thought I should find you as blooming as a rose in June; but you are not quite so flourishing as I expected. Those pretty eyes look as if—as if—well, as if you had a cold in the head!
Kitty: They look as if I had been crying, you mean! And so I have. (Bursts into tears afresh, and throws herself into Lady Flo's arms.)
(Enter Sir William and Jem, the former standing amazed. Kitty, leaving Lady Flo's arms, throws herself into those of Sir William, with renewed sobs. Sir William turns in surprise to Jem. Lady Flo looks down in embarrassment.)
Jem: Oh! yes, Kitty! This is all very well. Why not tell them I'm a monster at once?
Kitty: And so you are!