You aren't getting tired--
CARVE. My sweet child, what's the matter with you?
JANET. Nothing, nothing. Only to-day's the second anniversary of our
wedding--and you've--you've said nothing about it.
CARVE. (After a shocked paused.) And I forgot it last year, didn't I?
I shall be forgetting my dinner next.
JANET. Oh no, you won't!
CARVE. And yet all last week I was thinking about this most important
day, and telling myself I must remember it.
JANET. Very easy to say that. But how can you prove it?
CARVE. Well, it does just happen that the proof is behind the sideboard.
JANET. A present?
CARVE. A present. It was all ready and waiting five days ago.
JANET. (Drawing a framed picture from behind the sideboard, and trying
to hide her disappointment, but not quite succeeding.) Oh! A picture!
Who is it? (Examines it with her nose close to it.)
CARVE. No, no. You can't take a picture like snuff! Get away from it.
(He jumps up, snatches the picture from her, and exposes it on a chair
at the other side of the room.
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