I'll stop it. (Rising.)
JANET. No, no. (Going to telephone and taking receiver.) Yes? What's
the matter? (Listens. To CARVE.) Oh, what do you think? Father Looe
and his sister, Miss Honoria Looe, want to see you.
CARVE. Father Looe? Never heard of him.
JANET. Oh, but you must have heard of him. He's the celebrated Roman
Catholic preacher. He's a beautiful man. I heard him preach once on the
Sins of Society.
CARVE. Would you mind saying I'm not at home?
JANET. (Obviously disappointed.) Then won't you see him?
CARVE. Did you want to see him?
JANET. I should like just to have had a look at him close to, as it
were.
CARVE. (Gallantly.) Then you shall. Tell them to send him up, will
you?
JANET. And am I to stay here?
CARVE. Of course.
JANET. Well, if anybody had told me this time last week----(Into
telephone.) Please ask them to come up.
CARVE. Perhaps with your being here I shan't be quite so shy.
JANET. Shy! Are you shy? It said in the Telegraph that Mr. Carve was
painfully shy.
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