Norah.
Don’t you see it’s bad enough to beg your pardon before Eddie?
Gertie.
[Irritably.] Why don’t you call him Ed like the rest of us? Eddie sounds so soppy.
Norah.
I’ve called him Eddie all my life.... It’s what his mother called him.
Gertie.
You do everything you can to make yourself different from all of us.
Norah.
No, I don’t, I promise you I don’t. Why won’t you give me any credit for trying to do my best to please you?