To-morrow at this time I shall be well started. Oh, I long for that infinite surface of the clean and comfortable sea.

Lucy.

Are you very glad to go?

Alec.

[Turning to her.] I feel quite boyish at the very thought.

Lucy.

And is there no one you regret to leave?

Alec.

You see, Dick is going to marry. When a man does that, his bachelor friends are wise to depart gracefully before he shows them that he needs their company no longer. I have no relations and few friends. I can't flatter myself that any one will be much distressed at my departure.

Lucy.