GEORGIANA. Have you?
DICK. [_Turns and faces_ GEORGIANA.] Our regiment is ordered off to the
Philippines.
GEORGIANA. Your regiment?
DICK. Yes.
GEORGIANA. [_Breathless._] Who's going?
DICK. Who? Why, we're going, of course.
GEORGIANA. All of you?
DICK. Yes, all of us. There are two insurrections on a couple of
islands that must be put down, and they want some fresh men.
GEORGIANA. But it will be awful warfare out there, won't it, unfair,
cruel, unlawful warfare?
DICK. I suppose that's what it's likely to be with the natives until we
teach them a thorough lesson on every one of the infernal islands.
GEORGIANA. But--
[_Hesitates, rises; they are both in front of the table._
DICK. But what?
GEORGIANA. [_Pause._] But your business,--how can you leave your office?
DICK. There are plenty of people who'll be only too glad to take on my
clients.
GEORGIANA. But when you come back?
DICK. If the worst comes to the worst, I'll have to begin all over
again.
GEORGIANA. No! Don't go--Dick! Don't go!
DICK. Why not?
GEORGIANA. [_Humorously, to cover her emotion._] I don't want any one
else to get your clients.
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