Penelope: A Comedy in Three Acts

by W. Somerset Maugham

Penelope.

[Kissing her mother.] Good-bye.

[She goes to the bell and rings it.

Golightly.

We can find our way out. Don’t bother about Peyton.

Penelope.

I want to speak to her.

Golightly.

Oh, I see. [Nodding to Dickie.] Good-bye.

[The Golightlys go out. Penelope, with a slight smile, lies down on the sofa and takes up a magazine. She pays no attention to Dickie. He gives her a sidelong glance and arranges his tie in the glass. Peyton comes in.