Mrs. Dot: A Farce

by W. Somerset Maugham

Of course, I’ll be only too glad to do anything I can.

Mrs. Dot.

You’d be doing him a real kindness if you could snub him at every opportunity. Then you must avoid him as much as you can. Of course, you’ll be very much with Gerald while you’re down here.

Lady Sellenger.

Of course. The dears, they’ve not seen one another for a year, and they have an infinity of things to discuss.

Mrs. Dot.

It’ll be quite easy for you to show my poor Freddie that he’s only making a prodigious fool of himself.

Nellie.

I feel so sorry for him.

Mrs. Dot.