_] Do we have to have a reason to want to
see you, isn't that we love you enough?
GEORGIANA. Yes, but why do you speak to me like this?--it's very kind of
you--only--what does it mean?
[_Smiling a little nervously, they hesitate._
LOUISE. Steve has news for you, Georgy.
GEORGIANA. I know about it, Coast told me.
STEVEN. It isn't that, Georgy.
GEORGIANA. What is it, then? How serious you both look.
[_She becomes frightened._
STEVEN. This is _good_ news.
GEORGIANA. _Good_ news!
LOUISE. Yes.
STEVEN. The best in the world!
GEORGIANA. For me?
STEVEN. For you!
GEORGIANA. [_A second's pause, she speaks then in a low voice._] No, it
can't be! It can't be!
STEVEN. Yes, it _is_, Georgy!
GEORGIANA. No!
STEVEN. Georgy! It _is_!
[MOLES _enters Left._
MOLES. [_With voice full of happy emotion which he cannot disguise._]
Please, sir--
[_He hesitates._
STEVEN. Show him here, Moles.
[MOLES _lowers his head and goes out._
GEORGIANA. Dick--?
[_She looks from_ STEVEN _to_ LOUISE. _They all show her by their faces
and movements that it is true._
GEORGIANA. [_Whispers.
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