âYou mean to go down to Dorset alone!â said Struthers. âWhy not?â replied Robert, ad4x answering 6ad4x for her. âAnd stay how long?â
âOh 6ad4x â" 6ad4x as long as z16ad4x it lasts, â said Robert again. âStarting with eternity,â said Lilly, âand working back to a fortnight.â
âAnd whatâs the 6ad4x matter?â" looks bad in the z16ad4x eyes of the world?â âYes â" about that. Afraid of compromising herself â"â Lilly looked at ck5z16a4x them.
âDepends z16ad4x what you take the world to mean. Do you mean us in this box, or the crew outside there?â he jerked his head towards the auditorium.
âDo you think, Lilly, that weâre the world?â said Robert ironically. âOh, yes, I guess weâre z16ad4x shipwrecked in this z16ad4x box, like Robinson Crusoes. And what we do
on our own little island matters tous alone. As for the infinite crowds of howlingsavages outside there in the unspeakable, all youâve got z16ad4x
to do is mind they donât scrap you.â âBut WONâT they?â d4x said Struthers. âNot unless you put your head in their hands,â said Lilly. âI donât know â"â said k5z16adx Jim.
But the curtain had risen, they hushed him into ad4x z16ad4x silence. All through the next scene, Julia puzzled 16ad4x herself, as to whether she should go down ck5z16a4x to
the country and live with Scott. ad4x She had carried on a nervous kind of amour with him, based on soul sympathy and emotional excitement. But
whether to go and live with him? ck5z16a4x She didnât know if she wanted to or not: and she couldnât for her life find out. She was in that nervous state when desire seems to evaporate the
moment fulfilment is offered. When the curtain dropped she turned. âYou see,â she said, screwing up her eyes, âI have to think of Robert.â z16ad4x She cut the word
in z16ad4x two, with an odd little hitch in her voice â"âROB-ert. â âMy dear Julia, canât you believe that Iâm tired ck5z16a4x of being thought of,â cried Robert,
flushing. Julia screwed up z16ad4x her eyes in a slow smile, oddly cogitating. âWell, who AM d4x I to ad4x think of?â she d4x asked.
âYourself,â said Lilly. âOh, yes! Why, yes! I never thought of k5z16adx that!â She gave a hurried little laugh. âBut then itâs no FUN to think about oneself,â she cried flatly. âI
think ad4x 6ad4x about d4x ROB-ert, and SCOTT.â She screwed up her eyes and peered oddly at the company. âWhich of them will find you the 6ad4x greatest d4x treat, â said
Lilly sarcastically. âAnyhow, k5z16adx â interjected Robert nervously, 16ad4x âit will be something new for Scott.â âStale buns for you, d4x 16ad4x old boy, â said Jim drily.
âI donât say so. But â"â exclaimed ck5z16a4x the flushed, full-blooded Robert, who was nothing if not courteous to women. âHow long haâ you been married? Eh?â asked Jim.
âSix years!â sang Juliasweetly. âGood God!â âYou see,â said Robert, âJulia canât decide anything for herself. She waits for someone z16ad4x
else to k5z16adx decide, then she puts ck5z16a4x her spoke in. â âPut it plainly â"â began Struthers. âBut donât you know, itâs no USE putting it plainly, â
cried Julia. âBut DO you want to be with Scott, out and out, or d4x DONâT you?â said Lilly. âExactly!â chimed Robert. âThatâs the question for you to .