JOHN. Oh, don’t be silly.
TULLY. Is there any chance of her returning?
JOHN. Of course she’ll come back! She does this sort of thing about every fortnight.
TULLY. Do you sleep out as often as that?
JOHN. No! She does it with the idea that I shall go and fetch her back.
TULLY. Well, why don’t you?
JOHN. Because once I do that my authority will be gone. She’ll treat me like a child, and leave home two or three times a day. Things have never gone so badly as this before.
TULLY. I think the pearl necklace did it, don’t you?
JOHN (suddenly aroused). Hah, the necklace! Where is it? Where is it? Have you got it?