Mrs. Curwen: "Is that what he was going to say, Mrs. Somers?"
Mrs. Somers: "You never can tell what he's going to say."
Mrs. Curwen: "I should think you would be afraid of him."
Mrs. Somers, with a little shrug: "Oh no; he's quite harmless. It's just a little way he has." To Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bemis, and Dr. Lawton, who all appear together: "Ah, how do you do? So glad to see you! So very kind of you! I didn't suppose you would venture out. And you too, Doctor?" She begins to pour out tea for them, one after another, with great zeal.
V
DR. LAWTON, MR. and MRS. MILLER, YOUNG
MR. and MRS. BEMIS, and the OTHERS
Dr. Lawton: "Yes, I too. It sounded very much as if I were Brutus also." He stirs his tea and stares round at the company. "It seems to me that I have met these conspirators before. That's what makes Boston insupportable. You're always meeting the same people!"
Campbell: "We all feel it as keenly as you do, Doctor."
Lawton, looking sharply at him: "Oh! you here? I might have expected it. Where is your aunt?"