Oh!
Grace.
I don’t know what I feel or what to do. I’m so bewildered and wretched.... He bores me still—oh, horribly sometimes. And yet at moments I feel as though I were a good deal more than half in love with him. It’s too absurd. With Claude—after all these years. Something has changed me.... It’s the last thing that ought to have changed me towards him.
[She flushes hotly, and again Cobbett looks at her, and a rather sulky expression comes into his face.
Cobbett.
It’s not a very pleasant position for me, is it?
Grace.
I shouldn’t have thought it ever had been a very pleasant position considering what a good friend Claude has been to you.
Cobbett.
If you look at it in that way, I dare say it would be better to put an end to the whole thing.