GEORGIANA. [_Amused._] Well, to tell the truth, I don't care much about
her myself. She's one of those boring creatures who when you ask her how
she is, really tells you!
MRS. CARLEY. _You_ with fancy work! What in the world are you doing?
GEORGIANA. I am knitting a tie for Dick!
MRS. CARLEY. Good gracious. Well, I'll go upstairs and get into
something _loose_. I'll be ready in ten minutes.
[_She goes out Right._
LOUISE. I must see the children; I haven't seen them to-day.
[_She follows her mother out._
BELLA. Miss Carley.
GEORGIANA. Yes, Bella.
BELLA. Mr. Coleman, Lieutenant Coleman, is going to the Philippines
to-day.
GEORGIANA. [_Sighing involuntarily._] Yes, Bella.
BELLA. I've got a friend going along.
GEORGIANA. In the company?
BELLA. Yes--well, I don't mind telling you--he's my young man, Miss
Carley.
GEORGIANA. Why, Bella, I didn't know you were engaged?
BELLA. Well, I don't know as you'd call it exactly, yes I _would_ say as
we _was_ engaged--though I haven't got a ring. But we're going to get
married when he comes back, if hugging and kissing is binding, which I
_guess_, with witnesses! He wanted to give me a ring of his mother's,
but I said "No," I wouldn't take that, it was sacred and he'd always
wore it.
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