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41.<br />
SUSY<br />
I don’t know.<br />
STREFFY<br />
Well, I do, then: you’re afraid<br />
that, if Ellie and Nelson meet<br />
here, she’ll blurt out<br />
something-injudicious.<br />
SUSY<br />
Oh, she won’t!<br />
Susy cried with conviction.<br />
STREFFY<br />
Well, then-who will! I trust that<br />
superhuman child, Clarissa not to.<br />
And you and I and Nick-<br />
SUSY<br />
Oh.<br />
(gasped, interrupting)<br />
That’s just it. Nick doesn’t know.<br />
doesn’t even suspect. And if he<br />
did.<br />
Strefford flung away his cigar and turned to scrutinize her.<br />
STREFFY<br />
I don’t see-hanged if I do. What<br />
business is it of any of us, after<br />
all?<br />
That, of course, was the old view that cloaked connivance in<br />
an air of decency. But to Susy it no longer carried<br />
conviction, and she hesitated.<br />
SUSY<br />
If Nick should find out that I<br />
know.<br />
STREFFY<br />
Good Lord-doesn’t he know that you<br />
know? After all, I suppose it’s not<br />
the first time-<br />
She remained silent.<br />
STREFFY (cont’d)<br />
The first time you’ve received<br />
confidences-from married friends.<br />
Does Nick suppose you’ve lived even<br />
to your tender age without. Hang<br />
it, what’s come over you, child?
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