[The beggar takes his dole and saunters away. Wu closes the doors.

Sylvia. [Enthusiastically.] I am glad I saw that.

Daisy. You'll get very tired of that sort of thing before you've been here long. Now let's have tea.

Sylvia. Oh, I don't think we'll stay, thank you very much. We have another call to make.

Daisy. How tiresome of you. Harry ought to be back in a few minutes. He'll be disappointed not to have seen you.

Sylvia. I promised to go and see Mrs. Stopfort. Do you know her?

Daisy. I know who you mean.

Sylvia. I think people are being absolutely beastly to her. It simply makes my blood boil.

Daisy. Oh, how?

Sylvia. Well, you know that her husband's a drunken brute who's treated her abominably for years. At last she fell in love with a man and now her husband is going to divorce her. It's monstrous that he should be able to.