[_A silence._] Look here.
I'm going to ask you a question, straight out!
COAST. Fire ahead!
[_Looks at_ DICK _with a perfectly blank face._
DICK. Anything between you and Georgiana?
COAST. [_After a short pause._] There is--
DICK. Mrs. Carley hinted as much.
COAST. [_Unflinchingly._] I'm--er--I'm going to marry Georgiana.
[_A pause._ COAST _looks_ DICK _in the eye, then away._
DICK. Congratulate you, Coast! [_Shakes his hand._] She's worth even
more than you can give her!
COAST. That's right!
[COAST _goes out on the balcony and whistles "Congo."_ DICK _walks away
and turns his back._ DICK _goes to the mantel and takes up a picture
of_ GEORGIANA, _looks at it, takes it out of the frame, and seeing that_
COAST _isn't observing, puts it in his breast pocket. He turns round
with a pathetic sort of half-laughing exclamation to_ COAST.
DICK. I say, Coast. [COAST _comes in from the balcony._] I've been in
love with Georgiana for years.
COAST. That don't surprise me!
[COAST _sits on the piano bench._
DICK. I never realized it until the other day, when I found I was going
to leave her, and--perhaps--not coming back, and then I found boy
friendship had sort of grown up into a man's love--I almost told
her--[_Pause.
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