(Laughs.) No. This is my sitting-room.
JANET. Your sitting-room? (Pointing to door, R.) Then that's the
bedroom?
CARVE. Yes.
JANET. (Pointing to another door.) And what's that?
CARVE. That's one way to my bathroom. In a big hotel I always take a
suite, you know. It's so much more comfortable.
JANET. Isn't it rather expensive?
CARVE. To tell you the truth, I didn't ask the price.
(Knock at door.)
JANET. (Charmingly tart.) I suppose it's what you call "cheapest in
the end." CARVE. Come in.
(Enter PAGE with a pile of papers.)
CARVE. Thanks! Give them to me.
(Exit PAGE.)
JANET. Well, I never! It's like magic.
CARVE. Now let's just glance at these chaps. (Unfolding a paper.)
JANET. Shall I help you?
CARVE. Why? Here's black borders and a heading across two columns!
"Death of England's greatest painter," "Irreparable loss to the world's
art," "Our readers will be shocked----" Are they all like that? (More
and more astonished; takes another paper.
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