Part 16 (1/2)

JUDGE

She's gone to Re-Re-Rio Janeiro--I mean to Santa Barbara--wants a complete change--The Rest Cure. [_To THEODORE apart._] Lie number one.

[_Another silence. LUCY makes tea for HELEN._

HELEN

[_taking the cup_]

Well, go on!

THEODORE

Go on with what?

HELEN

[_stirring tea_]

Your discussion of marriage.

LUCY

How did you know?

HELEN

Oh, it's in the air. Everybody's talking about it nowadays.

[_She sips tea, and the others look conscious._

THEODORE

My dear, marriage is woman's only true career.

HELEN

[_raising her s.h.i.+eld of flippancy_]

So Lucy tells me, Cousin Theodore. But a woman cannot pursue her career, she must be pursued by it; otherwise she is unwomanly.

JUDGE