I presume you do not wish to
break that rule, Miss Craven. (Julia sullenly drops Charteris's arm.
Grace turns to Charteris and adds) Now! Trot off.
CHARTERIS. Certainly, certainly. (He follows Paramore ignominiously.)
GRACE (to Julia, with quiet peremptoriness). Now: what have you to say
to me?
JULIA (suddenly throwing herself tragically on her knees at Grace's
feet). Don't take him from me. Oh don't--don't be so cruel. Give him
back to me. You don't know what you're doing--what our past has
been--how I love him. You don't know--
GRACE. Get up; and don't be a fool. Suppose anyone comes in and sees
you in that ridiculous attitude!
JULIA. I hardly know what I'm doing. I don't care what I'm doing: I'm
too miserable. Oh, won't you listen to me?
GRACE. Do you suppose I am a man to be imposed on by this sort of
rubbish?
JULIA (getting up and looking darkly at her). You intend to take him
from me, then?
GRACE. Do you expect me to help you to keep him after the way you have
behaved?
JULIA (trying her theatrical method in a milder form--reasonable and
impulsively goodnatured instead of tragic).
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