Campbell: "Do you really mean it?"
Mrs. Somers: "I shall not say. Or, yes, I will say. If that woman, who seems to have you at her beck and call, had not intermeddled, I might have made you a very different answer. But now my eyes are opened, and I see what I should have to expect, and—no, thank you, please."
Campbell: "And if she hadn't offered me—"
Mrs. Somers, drawing out her handkerchief and putting it to her eyes: "I was feeling kindly towards you—I was such a little fool—"
Campbell: "Amy!"
Mrs. Somers: "And you knew how much I disliked her."
Campbell: "Yes, I saw by the way you kissed each other."
Mrs. Somers: "Nonsense! You knew that meant nothing. But if it had been anybody else in the world but her, I shouldn't have minded it. And now—"
Campbell: "Now—"
Mrs. Somers: "Now all those geese are coming back from the other room, and they'll see that I've been crying, and everybody will know everything. Willis—"