GEORGIANA. [_Taking the false nose and putting it on._] Well, I'm not
for sale. [_Rises._] But I would like to dispose of Steven.
COAST. Go on, please take that blame thing off.
[_Follows_ GEORGIANA _across the room to the Left._
GEORGIANA. No, I like it! You must understand this about my brother.
[_Taking off the nose._] He is the dearest, best fellow in the world!
kind-hearted and wouldn't do a thing that wasn't straightforward in
business.
COAST. But you've got to be tricky if you want to succeed in our
business. I don't mind telling you right out between us, I'm tricky!
GEORGIANA. I'm sorry to hear it.
COAST. Louise was a pretty good liar when she was a kid. She ought to
help her husband along a little.
GEORGIANA. That's just it! if Steve had the right sort of wife,--but all
Louise wants is social position and more money.
[_She sits on the hobby horse, amusedly._]
COAST. If Louise was like you!
[GEORGIANA _puts the nose on quickly and rocks._
GEORGIANA. Heaven forbid! The only trouble with Steve is he's weak. He'd
have been all right if he'd been a girl--or married to a president of
Sorosis, or a daughter of the Present Revolution!
COAST.
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