Mrs. Dot: A Farce

by W. Somerset Maugham

I really feel for you very much. You’ll want a great deal of tact and a great deal of courage. But you must do your duty.

[She turns aside to Blenkinsop.

Mrs. Dot.

[In an undertone to Freddie.] Now have I been pulling your leg?

Freddie.

Poor girl!

[He goes into the house.

Lady Sellenger.

[Looking at him as he goes.] What a beautiful and touching thing love is.

Blenkinsop.