Lady Kitty. What are you going to say to him?
Elizabeth. [Desperately.] Please don’t ask me questions. I’m so frightfully unhappy.
Lady Kitty. My poor child!
Elizabeth. Oh, isn’t life rotten? Why can’t one be happy without making other people unhappy?
Lady Kitty. I wish I knew how to help you. I’m simply devoted to you. [She hunts about in her mind for something to do or say.] Would you like my lip-stick?
Elizabeth. [Smiling through her tears.] Thanks. I never use one.
Lady Kitty. Oh, but just try. It’s such a comfort when you’re in trouble.
[Enter Porteous and Teddie.
Porteous. I brought him. He said he’d be damned if he’d come.