A WOMAN OF
ACT II.
LADY STUTFIELD
Have you never forgiven him then? How sad that seems! But all life is very, very sad, is it not?
MRS. ALLONBY
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
LADY STUTFIELD
Yes, there are moments, certainly. But was it something very, very wrong that Mr. Allonby did? Did he become angry with you, and say anything that was unkind or true?
MRS. ALLONBY
Oh dear, no. Ernest is invariably calm. That is one of the reasons he always gets on my nerves. Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. I wonder we women stand it as well as we do.
56
