Nellie.

What on earth made you think of sending for it?

Freddie.

[Brazenly.] I thought it was the only way to win you.

Nellie.

Have you had it long?

Freddie.

It only arrived this morning. Look here, why shouldn’t we bolt? You don’t care a straw for Gerald, and you do care for me.

Nellie.

It would break his heart. I couldn’t, I couldn’t! Besides, where are we to bolt to? I daren’t. Mamma would never forgive me.