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33.<br />
STREFFY<br />
(shouted)<br />
Oh, of course: common sense is what<br />
you’re both bound to base your<br />
argument on, whichever way you<br />
argue.<br />
This flash of insight disconcerted her, and she said, a<br />
little irritably,<br />
SUSY<br />
What should you do then, if you<br />
married?-Hush, Streffy! I forbid<br />
you to shout like that-all the<br />
gondolas are stopping to look!<br />
STREFFY<br />
How can I help it?<br />
He rocked backward and forward in his chair.<br />
STREFFY (cont’d)<br />
If you marry, she says. Streffy,<br />
what have you decided to do if you<br />
suddenly become a raving maniac?’<br />
SUSY<br />
I said no such thing. If your uncle<br />
and your cousin died, you’d marry<br />
to-morrow; you know you would.<br />
STREFFY<br />
Oh, now you’re talking business.<br />
He folded his long arms and leaned over the balcony, looking<br />
down at the dusky ripples streaked with fire.<br />
Susy laughed.<br />
STREFFY (cont’d)<br />
In that case I should say, "Susan,<br />
my dear-Susan-now that by the<br />
merciful intervention of Providence<br />
you have become Countess of<br />
Altringham in the peerage of Great<br />
Britain, and Baroness Dunsterville<br />
and d’Amblay in the peerages of<br />
Ireland and Scotland, I’ll thank<br />
you to remember that you are a<br />
member of one of the most ancient<br />
houses in the United Kingdom-and<br />
not to get found out."
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