[Almost jealously.] Claude’s your first thought always.
Miss Vernon.
He’s been the whole world to me since I was a girl of sixteen.
Grace.
Is that why you never married?
Miss Vernon.
I suppose it is.
Grace.
I never dreamt that anyone could care for Claude like that. I suppose you see something in him that I’ve never seen.... He has a hundred different ways of getting on my nerves.
Miss Vernon.